Monthly Archives: August 2023

Creative Non Fiction Prompt For Friday January 25, 2019

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Friday January 25, 2019

CREATIVE NONFICTION PROMPT

Wesley Yang’s essay collection, The Souls of Yellow Folk (Norton, 2018), takes inspiration from W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1903 book, The Souls of Black Folk, which addresses the experience of double consciousness: a divided identity split between the consciousness of how one views oneself and how one is viewed by others. A number of Yang’s essays examine his role as a writer within “the peculiar burden of nonrecognition, of invisibility, that is the condition of being an Asian American man,” and circle around the frustration and isolation of attempting to reconcile or unify public opinion with one’s inner life. In your own nonfiction, have you struggled with representing yourself honestly while being conscious of how your readers might view you? Write an essay about striking a balance between writing truthfully about your interior self and considering the pressures of others’ perceptions.

Reflection For Wednesday August 30, 2023

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Wednesday August 30, 2023

Today after work I went to my CBT Counselling appointment in New Westminster. I found $0.05 on the #100 bus which made my day. And then I had my favorite Teriyaki sub on a flatbread. And my CBT Counsellor saw me earlier than 1:45 pm so I was done earlier. The nice weather plus the longer transit meant I was able to read more from my library book Spare by Prince Harry. I am really loving the book. It is well written. And I love learning firsthand from a Royal what it is like. Prince Harry writes really well.

Beer Cheese Bread for ABM

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Beer Cheese Bread for ABM

1 pkg. active dry yeast
3 cups bread flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon butter
10 ounces beer, room temperature
4 ounces processed American or cheddar cheese
4 ounces Monterey Jack cheese, cubed

Follow your ABM mfg.’s directions for preparation of this type of bread.

======Tim Culey tsculey@bigfoot.com======

God’s Plan for Creation

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God’s Plan for Creation

Sometimes, we are left with the impression that things die out completely. In fact, the second law of thermodynamics claims that such termination is the destiny of all organic life. The piece of coal thrown into the fire can never be restored to its original form. An important transformation takes place, however, as the burning of that coal generates heat energy that propels technology to create a range of new entities. The piece of coal has not come to naught. Its true identity as an energy-bearing structure continues in a range of new forms, which cannot be perceived, understood, or accessed in the original form of the piece of coal. Viewing the natural world around us, we see things growing, a vast range of life-forms becoming and developing through greater complexity. It is often an untidy, even messy process (hence, the notion of chaos) and certainly does not follow a neat, logical progression. Any process of development involving increasing levels of complexity, elegance, and beauty will be accompanied by a considerable amount of destruction and waste. At every level of life, creation and destruction are interwoven in evolution’s trajectory.

—from the book Paschal Paradox: Reflections on a Life of Spiritual Evolution, by Diarmuid O’Murchu, page 6