This month, I’m writing posts from prompts in the Writing Down the Bones Card Deck by Natalie Goldberg, shared with me by my friend Barb Edler of Iowa. The prompt today captures the essence of what it feels like when you are all set to write, new journal and pens, time on your hands, the perfect chair, and nothing comes to mind that you feel like writing about. Today, Goldberg asks us to just write who we are, what we are feeling.
Layers of Being
when Dad woke up
after the shock
he announced he was
surprised to be here
and declared, I’m different
and it has me wondering
whether we exist in layers
of being
and when several get
torn away at once
we feel the going
Common Threads 