a significant life event

A Passage of Time –

A perspective on life. The test of time. Any new product must be tested. A word not found in many bibles. Test your Bible. One has the word 381 times. This is a test.

Daily writing prompt
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?

a clean room

A To Do List –

A first rule according to Dr. Jordan Peterson. A good place to start but that is all I do. I never finish it. Maybe the rule should be to finish one job. Others say to just start it knowing you will never finish it. So here is the start of a…….

Daily writing prompt
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.

a favorite thing to cook

A Chili Recipe –

A hot spicy one with no tomatoes. Just 80/20 hamburger, dark red kidney beans, white onions, chili powder, chicken broth, and extra crushed red pepper. I make spaghetti on the side because she can’t take the heat. It’s the best thing for a sore throat when you are coming down with a cold.

Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite thing to cook?

a home computer

A TI99 –

A keyboard that hooked up to your TV. I told my wife to get it when the price came down to $100. A technician at work showed me how to save a program with my tape recorder. I had to learn BASIC programming and would take my work home until someone told me how to use this new computer on my desk at work. “Just type BASIC”. It was love at first sight.

Daily writing prompt
Write about your first computer.

a public speech

A Crowd Of People –

A time to be heard without preparation. Public speaking scares me. Need to be asked. Need time to prepare. Only once did I speak up without being asked and without preparation because it looked like no one else would do it. It was mentioned in the local newspaper.

Daily writing prompt
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?

a complaint

A Negative Reaction –

A lack of sunshine. A lack of truth. Censorship. A lack of thinking. Complaining. Corruption. Thinking about what I complain about the most. An inability to stop complaining.

Daily writing prompt
What do you complain about the most?

a favorite sport

A Team Sport –

A sport, with eleven positions, football is the only real team sport. With each play 22 players must make a split second decision on what to do. Most can only watch. Very few get to play. Nearly everyone gets to play basketball. All you need is two players, a ball, and a basket.

Daily writing prompt
What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

a history book

A Record Of What Was –

A future that is unknown. Only history can be trusted. Everything else is fiction or someone’s fantasy. Historians police themselves. They all look at the same records and check to see if they are consistent with other records. History helps us understand what works and what doesn’t in books that you want to read if you want to know.

Daily writing prompt
What books do you want to read?

a family tradition

A Reunion –

A time to get together. We now have Zoom reunions. We are so far apart in every way. We have to be careful of what we talk about. The family ties are stronger than the differences we have created. We have to remember what we have in common.

Daily writing prompt
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

a leisure time

A Time To Enjoy –

A beer in my rocking chair on my porch watching the world go by. This includes checking to see what plants need to be moved, replaced, watered, trimmed, etc.

Daily writing prompt
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?