Daily Nourishment for September 19, 2024: What Have You Forgotten? with Guidance from Lauren Winner
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 30 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 13 minutes
When you aren’t sure what to write, try starting with something you’ve forgotten. Then see what happens next.
Pause.
Read “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Prompt.
Read the poem two more times. Use your imagination to enter the scenes in both stanzas. Take notes for three minutes and describe what you see.
Practice.
Set a timer for seven minutes and write about something you’ve forgotten.
Want More?
Read “In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet”
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Today’s Daily Nourishment was provided by Lauren Winner last year before we were posting Daily Nourishment online. Lauren Winner is a writer, professor, Episcopal Priest, & spiritual director. Read Lauren’s full bio here.
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