I read a post from my ROW80 Team Sprinty friend, Lena Corazon this morning. The tweet included Z"#writecampaign". Curious, I popped over to the site that hosts Write Campaign. I didn't realize I was too late to complete the challenge so I sat at my desk and wrote the requisite two hundred words.
I enjoted the outcome so I am posting them here, even though it is too late to be official in the challenge. You know, that's how writing is sometimes: you may miss the boat submission wise, but you know the words will come to serve you someday, even if it simply for the process of responding to the intricacies of each particular challenge.
Shadows crept across the wall in the early morning light, most often caused by the pine tree that lives alongside my porch, outside my kitchen window.
This was my favorite writing sanctuary for many years. Many years until October, when my eccentricity bothered my neighbor enough to complain about my “uncivilized” unporchly décor.
I know, not many people use living room easy chairs and meant-for-indoor furniture in their porch, but I never claim to be untamed.
Certainly my words are not.
From my perch upon the garage sale writing chair, I would watch the sunrise: orange, peach, mauve, palest baby blanket yellow. I would write, anything and everything: the battered 1940’s truck that drove passed each day at 6:40 am. Dogwalking neighborly friends. The Jay which visited my porch, so friendly, never shouting at me with a familiar screeching Jay Squawk.
Maybe it was the empty Samuel Adams bottle that did me in, or the laundry lines I put up to dry my art and journal paper that I meant to take down and never did. Maybe it was my prideful insistence on being myself when so many others don’t have the guts.
October first, it was removed.
Everything faded.
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Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She teaches a teleclass/ecourse "Discover the Power of Writing & Telling Engaging, Enlightening Stories" which begins again March 15, 2012. Find details by clicking this link.
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