June 2011
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Prompt 2: Today by Liz Danzico
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell...
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Prompt 1: Gwen Bell – 15 Minutes to Live
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear. It something isn’t it. It gets you in all the right places and manages to seep into all the wrong ones. Evolutionarily speaking, fear is a tool. It is the reason that our species has survived. Our brains adapted due to fear, our...
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Self-Reliance, I has it.
Or more correctly, my mother has it and has allowed me the benefit of basking in her glow. She is an incredibly gifted, social media oriented and generally interesting person who called me this morning in a supportive push to get me to join her in completing a 30-day writing challenge. The Domino Project’s blog-a-thon, Self-Reliance (#trust30) is inspired by the 208’s birthday of...