“Blossoming,” photo by Mary Gow
I enjoyed the variety of posts.
On Day 2 it was a thrill to be scrolling and see the submission I made that day on the blog!
During the week I caught myself in a habit I’d like to break. Yesterday’s topic was to write about surprising ourselves. I wrote and rewrote a story of when I was in the seventh grade I heard about a famine in Africa and I was so moved by the potential of millions dying that I went room to room asking for donations in this school of over a thousand students.
Then I glanced at the Challenge to see what other people were writing – which were mainly surprises they recently experienced, not surprises from many years ago.
So I scratched my story and submitted two sentences about a recent surprise.
I’ll keep on writing though. I’m continually learning.
I leave you with a poem I look at every day:
… and then
the day came
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud was
more harmful
than the risk
it took to
blossom.
-Anais Nin