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Journal Camp: day 12
My Oldest Living Relative
My oldest living relative would by my aunt, my mother’s sister. She was one of four children, and she had nine babies with my uncle. As a reward for a life well lived, she is our matriarch. It is so strange to move inevitably closer to that category: the elder generation. The wise ones. The ones with institutional memory. Where do the stories go when the elders are gone? Does the narrative lose its bite? Do the family mythologies soften around the edges like a cherished photograph carried for years in a wallet? Perhaps family stories are like an image that over time fades until only the ghost of an persona remains.
Journal Camp, day nine
Stories I Tell Myself
- One more cup of coffee won’ hurt
- But I need these shoes
- That spider could bit me
- Once bitten, twice shy
- My roommate is an absent minded genius
- I will drink more water
- I will relax in traffic
- Traffic isn’t so bad
- I have the best commute in the world
- Other people do more
- She makes it look easy
- The world is falling apart
- The world is a shared hallucination
- Quantum physics
- My chakras need clearing
- I love it when it rains
- If I eat the tomatoes now, I can save the artichoke for later
- Its hot enough to go to the pool
- Ninety degrees is the minimum to make the pool a good idea
- Check windspeed
- Journal Camp is awesome
- Here I grow again
- This is my favorite summer in years
- Its never too late for a happy ending
- I am a creative genius
- We are all creative geniuses
- Hooray for creative geeks!
- I am grateful
- I could be more grateful, more often
- Wahoo!
six word story no. 179
There would be no more do-overs.
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six word story no. 178
The poseur sprang a gassy leak.
Brought to you with savage indolence by Journaling as Sacred Practice: An Act of Extreme Bravery. Available now on Amazon.
six word story no. 175
The electeds sent messengers ahead with cake.
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six word story no. 166
Shiny objects did not distract them.
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six word story no. 157
There were disturbing examples of censorship.
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