"Today you will say things...." April 2021 Prompt

This day will never…happen again.

Today you will do things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them. Don't think you can plan your day all out.
This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again.
———inspired by Naomi Shihab Nye's quotation: "Today you will say things...."

What will be easy for me today or tomorrow?
What is hard for me?
What's hard for me today especially?

(Write for 5 to 30 minutes, the first sentences or phrases that come into your mind. This is not a formal essay.)

Cracked Pot: December 2018 Prompt

Window of Understanding

I was dusting the fronts of my bookcase shelves when I accidentally knocked off the  pot made by the head of the art department where I went to college so many years ago. A piece of the flared lip broke off. I could have glued it back carefully. I don’t know what came over me, but I threw the pot on the floor and it smashed into triangles and shards. The “Window of Understanding” on the pot, as he called the blue square outlined on the grey clay, was now in three pieces.

I remember what he said when he gave it to me. He whispered…..