November 18, 2019
Prompt:
Picture in your mind a photograph of one of your parents or a close relative that you learned something from. Picture them before you were born.
parents
PROMPT: LABELS WE PUT ON CHILDREN
The prompt for the group meeting was the following line:
My wife tells me I’m really unfair to one of our children, but she’ll never tell me whether it’s Roger, Claire, or the lazy stupid one.
Prompt: In Praise of Mothers
The prompt this week relates to yesterday’s Mother Day holiday.
Write to or about a mother. It doesn’t have to be yours. It could be someone you know, or just a character.
Prompt: What My Father Taught Me
In honor of Father’s Day in the United States this past weekend, the prompt is:
What my father taught me.
Lost Child
The following is by Veronica Weeks-Basham, a member of Writers in the Grove. It was inspired by Prompt: Being Brave.
I have decided that I don’t exist.
That person died when my parents refused to accept or even see
The person that I was discovering myself to be.
That person, like the mythical Atlantis,
Sank beneath a sea of criticism, disregard and approval
When my being reflected back their own comfortable version of themselves.
Writers in the Grove 