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Day 26: running on empty …
This twenty-sixth day of the Wego Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge finds me running on empty, almost out of ideas and the right words to convey them. My cup runneth over with cliches about the home stretch and the light at the end of the tunnel and how it’s always darkest before the dawn. Not to worry, today’s post is short and requires only that I create a tagline for my blog, my health condition, my self. I have written before about the inspiration behind the title of this blog that whispers daily reminders that it is time. Time to consider the lilies . . . For once in my…
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Day 24: the breast cancer lottery
Day 24 of the WEGO Health Activist Writers Monthly Challenge, and my muse has abandoned me somewhat. Less than words, today’s challenge has me pondering more the “branding” of my blog, envisioning of all things, a mascot, one that might help give my blog an identity all its own. Would it be fictional? A real person? A mythical being? Given my numerous references to our modern-day myths around breast cancer, it seems fitting for me to turn to Greek mythology, to The Fates themselves, in order to complete today’s assignment. I wonder if the ancient Greeks lived a little easier because they knew their destiny had already been decided, the…
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Day 22: a sign of things to come
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Day 21: more wordplay
Health Madlib Poem. This challenge was a little different, requiring me to play some more with words, with parts of speech. I simply visited Language is a Virus and entered random nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. Here’s what it generated, in the style of e.e.cummings: pink density’s pink density sadly i have never questioned, betrayed beyond the pink ribbon, such promises have their price: in your most public displays are things which offend me, or which i cannot detect because they are too hidden your innocent unfurling at last will undo me though i have deceived myself as delivered, you deliver always denial by denial myself as lies conceal (duping defiantly,…
