Author Archives: Wizard Woodsy

Today’s prompt: What would it mean to offer kindness to yourself in your grief? What would kindness look like? How do you, or how would you, be kind to your “sad self”? In what ways is kindness missing in the ways you treat yourself? The thing with offering kindness to myself is that it feelsContinue reading “Prompt #6 ~~ 01/11/21”

Today’s prompt: If your grief is a character who can come forward and speak, what kind of voice does she have? Don’t tell us about it, let him or her actually speak. Write in grief’s voice. I see you. I see you staring into space. I know you can’t concentrate today. That’s probably my fault.Continue reading “Prompt #5 ~~ 01/10/21”

Today’s prompt: Smell is one of the most powerful generators of story and memory. Let’s follow your sense of smell. Cooper, you’d make so much fun of me for this one. I’d probably earn a rare, “Jesus Christ, Mom.” Even so, I have your pillowcase in a Ziploc bag. I know, I know–it’s weird andContinue reading “Prompt #4 ~~ 01/09/21”

Today’s prompt: How do you live in a landscape so vastly changed? Beats me. I’m working on it every day, but 19 weeks into this changed existence, this changed landscape, I have no idea. I mean, I’m living, but I’m not living-living. I’ve gotten out of bed almost every day. I go to work andContinue reading “Prompt #3 ~~ 01/08/21”

Today’s prompt: If you could tell people something, tell them what is true, what is true about grief and love and loss, something they do not know, or can’t know, what would it be? If you could address them, what would be said? Grief–the wrenching, deep grief that is the eventual recessional to great, deepContinue reading “Prompt #2 ~~ 01/07/21”

Today’s prompt: Who was the person you used to be? Who was I? I was a girl mom, daughter, and sister, always up for playing cards or playing outside. I went shopping for fun, enjoying the company of “the girls.” I was a sometimes-silly, sometimes-wry jokester, happiest when others were happy. I laughed. Who wasContinue reading “Prompt #1 ~~ 01/06/21”