Tag: dailyprompt
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Macy Gray
What do you listen to while you work? My workday starts the same way every morning, listening to Macy Gray while I prepare for my students. Hearing the same songs and singing along ensures that I have a familiar, predictable, and regulated start to every day, which is usually the last time that happens in…
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Tea
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. One simple thing I do every day that brings joy to my life is to choose a tea from my vast collection and make a pot of it to enjoy throughout the day or share with guests. I drink it from my favorite…
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Voting
Do you vote in political elections? YES! It is my privilege and right! I honor that privilege and protect that right by voting. Photo: Flemington, NJ. 11.22.20 selfie.
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Happiest
When are you most happy? I am happiest when I am living in alignment and gratitude and am mindful in the moment. I am blessed with friendships I’ve cultivated throughout my life, evolving relationships with my amazing daughters as they transition into adulthood, a supportive family, a job I love and witness the impact of…
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Exercise
What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? I have so many physical activities and exercises that I love that I can’t choose just one! I walk every single day. In good weather, I walk outside. morning, noon and/or night. I walk around my neighborhood, around town, and drive to paths and trails. When I…
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Judging
What could you do less of? Icoulddo lessjudging…ofothers and myself,instead offering compassion. photo: New Haven, CT. 11.25.24 by LA
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Without Music Prompt
What would your life be like without music? Who found who? Did I find music or did it find me? I can’t remember a time in my life when there wasn’t a soundtrack. From my mother chanting and singing nursery rhymes to my older siblings blasting their albums to music class in nursery school and beyond,…
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My Favorite Types of Food
What are your favorite types of foods? Breakfast foods, lunch foods, dinner foods, snack foods, and dessert foods. Or simply put, yes!
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Prompt: how often do you walk or run?
How often do you walk or run? Every. Single. Day. One or the other or both. It’s my time to connect with the natural world. It’s my time to be present, curious, and observant. It’s my time to gain clarity by processing what’s on my mind. It’s my time to see neighbors, houses, gardens. It’s…
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Story
What’s your favorite word? I am in love with so many words that I don’t think I could ever choose just one as my favorite. My word of the year for 2024 is story, so I will write about that one. This year, I have focused on getting to know my story, accepting my story,…
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These Bring Joy
What brings a tear of joy to your eye? Letting things be,My daughters three,Being outside,A thoughtful surprise,Kindness and care,Daring to dare,A 5 mile walk,A long, deep talk,My extended family,Pups all snuggly,An organized shelf, Loving myself. photo: Henry and Spencer, 8.31.24
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A birthday interview
Interview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses. As per the prompt, I have chosen to interview someone, and this someone is on the cusp of a birthday. Tomorrow, my puppy turns two. Here are some excerpts from our interview: Me: How do…
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Recipe for Love
What’s your favorite recipe? 1 rounded cup communication 1 cup compassion 3/4 cup consistency 1/2 cup empathy 1/2 cup honesty 1/3 cup vulnerability 1/3 cup kindness 1/4 cup listening 1/4 cup curiosity Add all ingredients and mix well, blending them thoroughly, though some lumps may remain. Pour the batter into a heart mold and warm…
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A New School Year
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. The last thing I got excited about was spending the whole day in my classroom yesterday, setting it up for the new school year. I am in a different room this year, so I inherited a lot of stuff. I enjoyed incorporating what I can…
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Growth
What motivates you? I’ve read so many wonderful and thought-provoking responses to this prompt. They have motivated me to answer for myself! What motivates me most often – in any and every aspect of my life – is that I love to grow and growing is how I love. This is not my phrase, but…
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Hope
What positive emotion do you feel most often? I’ve come to a place in my life where I no longer label my emotions as “positive” or “negative”. I allow and welcome all my feelings, and believe they deliver important information to me. I do my best to sit with them and not push them down…
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Peaceful Path
What brings you peace? The place I feel most at peace is walking along a path…anywhere, any type. I love being in nature: hearing the ground crunch beneath my feet as I follow the bends and straightaways, taking in the plants and trees dressed for various seasons, glimpsing water to one side, spotting chipmunks, deer,…
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Never Leave Home Without It
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? I think the most important thing to carry with you at all times is mindfulness. Knowing what I’m doing while I’m doing it is crucial to staying in the present moment. When I am mindful, I can both look at a situation…
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Snoop Dogg & Martha Stewart
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that. I am obsessed with everything Olympics. I’m not reading, writing or emptying the dishwasher with any regularity because I’m locked in on everything from trap shooting to my beloved tennis. It was while watching dressage that the…
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Joy and Happiness
List 30 things that make you happy. According to Brene Brown, Happy is a human emotion brought on by circumstances and is external; it represents a freedom from care and worry or good fortune. Conversely, Joy is a spiritual connection, constantly tethered to the heart; a joyful life is made up of moments gracefully strung…
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Formality
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? My mom loved the holidays-any holiday! Christmas was her favorite. She had boxes and boxes of decorations, many of them handmade by her. They covered every surface in our home, hung in windows and were the cloths and mats on every table. But she was…
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Prompt response: typical?
Was today typical? There’s really no such thing as a typical day for me. Although I have routines and rituals, I try to be present to recognize the atypical, from a new bird at my feeder to a new story from a colleague, to a throwback song on the radio to a surprise text to…
The Journey Inward 