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Day 9: “let all the children boogie”
Today’s WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge is a little quirky, requiring me to make my own version of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster. I always assumed this was something Winston Churchill had said to boost the morale of his countrymen. Something that would perfectly capture the quintessential British stiff-upper-lip-stoicism. Turns out he didn’t. According to Keep Calm and Carry On, The Real Story, the poster that has been so frequently parodied as an internet meme wasn’t even discovered until long after the end of the war. The original plan by the British government’s Information Ministry, had been to issue the poster when Germany invaded Britain. Since that didn’t…
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Day 8: A one sided conversation
Today’s WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month challenge is to recap an awesome conversation I had this week, perhaps in the form of a script. I’ve had all kinds of conversations this week, some inspirational some not so much. Not all have been pleasant, and not all have required me to be physically present. I have taken turns at talking and listening, but between Twitter and Skype, Facebook and social media in general, I am learning that conversation in the 21st century is a complex thing, involving more than the exchange of ideas and opinions between people in the same space. Not too late, my definition of conversation has expanded to include reading and writing and…
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Day 7: Wait Time
Entering week two of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge, and I’m pressing on, fueled by the creativity and the unflagging spirit that leaps from the writings of my Army of Women comrades, AnneMarie at chemo-brain.blogspot.com Jan Hasak at Mourning has Broken and my country-woman Marie Ennis-O’Connor at Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer. Today, I get a bit of a reprieve. I can write about whatever I want. I’m supposed to “think big, broad, or challenging,” and write the post I’ve always wanted to but haven’t had the time. Time. I was talking to my mother on the phone this morning about how there’s simply never enough of it. Initially she wasn’t in the…
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Day 6: Health Haiku
Health Haiku. Let’s switch up the writing style a bit for today’s posts! As you probably know, a haiku is a “miniature Japanese poem consisting of 17 syllables – five syllables in first line, seven in second, and five in the last. No rhyme or meter scheme is employed when writing haiku. The aim of the haiku is to create something greater than the sum of the parts.” Traditionally, haiku poems were written about nature and aim to capture the essence of the aspect of nature that is being described. Opening the WEGO Health Blog each day in April is a bit like opening the little doors on an Advent Calendar. Each…
