These two pieces were written in January 2011.

Day 20. What should you have done this year but didn’t because you were too scared, worried, unsure, busy or otherwise deterred from doing?I smile wryly at this prompt. First because I've been told - how many times? - that the word 'should' is unhelpful and to eliminate it from my thinking. Secondly ( Read more... )

This piece was written on 2nd January 2011.

Day 19. What healed you this year? Was it sudden, or a drip-by-drip revelation? How would you like to be healed in 2011?I'm confused by this prompt. I don't feel healed at all. In fact, I feel quite the opposite right now. My back is stiff from sitting too long, my stomach is roiling because I forgot to ( Read more... )

Written on 2nd January 2011.

Day 18. What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did/didn't go for it?Try? I wrote about my dislike of the word 'try' just recently. To me, it smacks of failure. Perhaps it just needs a shift of perspective - to try something new, without the expectation of ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wrote 4 Reverb10 prompts all in one sitting. Yay, me!
However, I'll release them one at a time to prevent reader boredom.

Day 17. What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going forward?

Mainly I'm just going to refer to the blog posts I wrote recently, 2010 In Review and ( Read more... )

Day 16. How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst?I didn't make any new friends this year, but I've become closer to someone I've known for a while. B has shown me many things. When she shaved her head for charity, she showed me that there are much more important things than ( Read more... )

Day 15. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.-- Firstly, you went to Europe for 3 weeks in Sept/Oct. It was a life-changing experience. You met your Dutch family and saw your roots ( Read more... )

Day 14. What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year?I took a deep breath before starting to write this piece. And that deep breath lasted for 6 days. I knew what I was going to write about the moment I read the prompt, so that wasn't the problem. I couldn't figure out how I was going to do justice to the subject. When you ( Read more... )

Day 13. When it comes to aspirations, it’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step?When I thought about action, writing just didn't seem appropriate. So I decided to grab Boy's graphics tablet, which he's just installed on my computer, and use it to 'write' a photo essay ( Read more... )

Day 12. This year, when did you feel the most integrated with your body? Did you have a moment where there wasn’t mind and body, but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and present?

I know I said I was going to take a couple of days off from writing, but once I read the prompt, my brain just started ticking away!
I mentioned in my last post that I've ( Read more... )

Day 11. What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life?

11 things? That's quite a lot, isn't it? And I have to work on all of them next year?? Who says? Though, when I think about it, this exercise really forces you to delve deeper down inside, in ( Read more... )