Sparklify It
Or put a bird on it
Are the thoughts in your head interesting to you? I think I’ve discussed how I hate when my head tips too far into the work/task/efficiency side of the pool. It’s when everything is just about getting things done. So I used a creative writing technique to try to make it more sparkly!
The technique was to use a headline. In this case, I just grabbed the first line I read from a nearby book.
Dorianne Laux’s poetry collection includes a Pulitzer Prize.
That used to mean something—that a mere mortal could achieve the summit and say how they stood on the snowcap itself!
But nowadays it feels like we all live in a tangled ball of yearn.
I can’t find the beginning or end.
What is up?
What does it mean to surmount and climb?
Especially when a struggle only entwines everything up more tightly?
But as I lay on my side panting, I used my hands to caress on of the yarns, and it caused me to remember how yesterday I did a spin class. Everything I did was stationary, and yet, I haven’t sweated like that in years! It’s the first time since before cancer, pandemic, etc that I’ve been able to move to exhaustion—and still feel fine afterward! And that memory suddenly lined up the minute actions of the past 5 years into a straight line of cause and effect. And so I gently let go the thread because maybe there is a path to find anyway.
Yay for being normal level of tired from normal exhausting activities!