Daily Nourishment for September 20, 2024: Leaving Summer with Guidance from Aarik Danielsen

Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes


“It’s summer, and I want to give myself away to wild ground, wild spaces, wild belief until I am more a part than apart.” - Aarik Danielsen

Pause.

Take a few deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale. Then read the words below from “Summer Scenes, No. 1-5” by Aarik Danielsen:

4. Fretboard Coffee, Columbia, Missouri

I test a theory on my friend Donald. Every writer, I think, is only ever working out one problem, one passion or sentiment a thousand different ways. I wonder aloud if he agrees and what his one thing might be. I will leave it to him to tell you himself; in person or on the page, he does so with clarity and generosity 

When the question inevitably comes back to me, I exhale and say, “I think I’m always testing how much weight the word sacred can bear.” 

 

Prompt.

 

Practice.

Set a timer for seven minutes and take notes or journal about five scenes from this summer that you want to remember, hold onto, or ask questions about.

If you like, use your notes or journal entry to write a new essay, poem, story, or a letter to a friend in the coming days or weeks.

Want More?
Read more from Aarik Danielsen on last summer here:
Scenes from a Cruel Summer

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