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SBSK is The Most Important Channel on YouTube | 🔗 https://brennan.day/sbsk-is-the-most-important-channel-on-youtube/
#PersonalEssay #YouTube #SocialCommentary #Disability #Community #Advocacy
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Beeminder: Getting Back on the Horse | 🔗 https://brennan.day/beeminder-getting-back-on-the-horse/
#PersonalEssay #Productivity #HabitTracking #Beeminder #Self-improvement #CommitmentDevices
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Broken Chair
I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.
But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.
Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.
It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.
Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.
It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.
I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.
I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.
July 10, 2015
#beautyInBrokenThings #beingRestored #Brokenness #compassion #everydayParables #FaithAndLife #foundObjects #gentleHands #Grace #Healing #Hope #humanDignity #innerHealing #Loneliness #metaphor #ordinaryGrace #personalEssay #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Purpose #Redemption #renewal #repair #rescuedChair #restoration #secondChances #sidewalkStory #SpiritualReflection #urbanReflection #Waiting #WordPressTagsBrokenChair #woundedButWorthy #Writing -
Welcome to all the new folks joining after Elmo's latest attempts to find new depths.
Since it's #FollowFriday: For anyone interested in writing, especially writing from personal experience, my mom (Sheila Bender) is a poet, essayist and teacher of writing and she's on Mastodon!
#CreativeWriting #poetry #PersonalEssay #FlashFiction #FlashNonFiction
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And bonus #FollowFriday for anyone interested in writing, especially writing from personal experience. My mom (Sheila Bender) is a poet, essayist and teacher of writing and she's on Mastodon!
#CreativeWriting #poetry #PersonalEssay #FlashFiction #FlashNonFiction
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I like writing prompts with nuance, not just think of this or that. On Medium, I have posted five writing prompts using childhood games as a diving board into your material.
https://medium.com/@sheilabender/use-childhood-games-as-writing-prompts-37b0675b650
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Just learned I'll be teaching in Cinque Terre May 27-June 2. Full details here: https://medium.com/@sheilabender/visit-cinque-terre-for-a-week-and-write-may-27-to-june-2-2023-93af078a9517
#poetry #memoir #personalessay #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #creativewriting