Daily Nourishment for December 15, 2024: When One Foot Is Outside the Door with Guidance from Erik Fuhrer
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 45 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
“It sure is hard
to dance across
the room when you’ve got
one foot on the floor
and one foot
outside the door”
-Laura Veirs, “Little Deschutes”
Pause.
Listen to Laura Veirs’ “Little Deschutes” at least one time.
Prompt.
Focus on the space around you. Observe how your body feels where you are (are you sitting/standing? what else?).
Observe some of the objects closest to you. What do they look like? Feel like? Do they remind you of anyone? If so, who? What is their relationship to the room? To you?
Freewrite for at least five minutes. Alternatively, you may make a list, a word cloud, or draw pictures. The main goal is to get your observations about the room and your feelings on the page.
Practice.
Read over what you wrote/drew. Did these last five minutes of close observation change how you felt about the space you were in? Why or why not? Did it teach you anything new about the space? If so, what?
Write about what you learned for about three minutes.
Return to this space at least once more today. Try sitting/standing in a slightly different area. Note your observations in your journal.
Make It Advent:
Listen to some songs from one or more of the playlists from below while repeating the entire Prompt & Practice. How was this Pause & Practice different from the previous round?
Want More?
Read about 10 techniques for Mindful Writing.
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