Please consider giving my prompt a try 🙂✍️

#WriteMap 240

Map a meaningful event or issue from your past, present or future. All writing forms are OK (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose, etc.).

Prompt (optional): NOVEL

We need much more of these please:

Kindness
Love
Peace
Empathy
Inclusion
Hope
Diversity
Equality
Unity

And much less of these:

Hate
Judgement
Toxicity
Harassment
Bullying
Violence
Racism
War
Exclusion
Division

The Midwest is beautiful in full bloom 😍

📚Excerpt. Touchstones for men.
' ... Many men have had difficulty trusting, so we try to understand everything before we get involved in it. But as long as we try to figure it out first, we remain on the outside looking in ... ' 👀

#Thursday #HealthyMindBody #MovingForward 📷cc

The good seeds you planted one day
Will get growing

Roses & flowers
Of fragrance joying
In a #terrarium
Brightly glowing

Good memories get Flowing
Whenever your name's mentioned
People get gratefully bowing

#vss365

His body mind and soul lives in a aromatic #terrarium . It smells like a smoky wildfire with a hint of nutty chocolate and floral. On occasion, droplets of whipped creamy steam fall from the heavens above. He is quite happy to live in this sheltered Cafe of reality.

#vss365 📷cc

I can only see her in the mind's eye.
Her love makes me blind to anyone else.

Symph & Jules #blind #healing #hope
#SymphAndJules #love #friends #support 📷cc

this may look like a shot straight out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s REAL!
this is the earth eclipsing the sun, taken when the apollo 12 spacecraft was returning home from the moon and it’s gorgeous.

Self-care is not about being selfish or self-indulgent.
It’s about giving yourself the same kindness and love you so freely give to others.

The Butterfly Nebula

📷 I love my local recovery group. I also love the coffee and donuts.

#RecoveryPosse #HealthyMindBody

'Jeb mission report.' 'Sarah the plan was perfect. We retrieved the target's phone.' 'Until?' 'Until Agent Katya started playing the part of the wife, speaking in her native language then #pathos .' 'What?' 'Sorry I can't disclose that part.' 'Jeb where are your pants?'
#vss365 cc

According to the Washington Post, Illinois ranks as 'most normal state' in the US.

What say you Illinois fans?
📷 Washington Post Chicago History ™️
Chicago Tribune
News-Leader

I made a pot of Chicken and Dumplings for comfort food to soothe my soul. If you all lived close by, I would serve you a bowl full of goodness.
//hugs

Virtual hugs are gladly accepted this afternoon/evening. Life's 'okay, but 'lil wil' needs a hug or two. 📷cc

#HealthyLiving #MovingForward #hugs #hope #Peace #writerslife #Memories #CancerSucks #GriefSucks

Ladies and Gentlemen, rock 'n roll. Then...the video that launched our generation. Salute! Video Killed The Radio Star 📺🎸 Trevor Horn Geoffrey Downes <-- The Buggles!

Support Monday! Lifting some Twitter authors, I have read and can recommend:

Hardpressed by p.s.books
Soul of Light and Thunder by Arianne Nicks | Author 🧚🏻‍♀️
Blossoms of Hope by Jami Lyne ~ author & poet 🕊
Love of the Hunt by 𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖓 𝕽. (𝕾.𝕴.𝕽.3)
(His)Story of Women by Kacey Kells
Sweet Escape by Thea Landen, Smutty Author of Romance

when you stop trying to find the right one, the right one will find you

With the love we share with others there is never goodbyes, for our love is eternal and will always, and forever live in our soul. When our body goes back to the loving arms of Mother Earth and our spirit soars upwards to Father Sky, this love in our soul will guide us to.....

Often the wisdom of the body clarifies the despair of the spirit.
— Marion Woodman

'Today, I am learning to listen to the wisdom of my own body.'

.📒Touchstones for men. Daily reading for 14 May. 📷cc