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Nearing Vicksburg

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 7, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments on Nearing Vicksburg

I drove the narrow, wooded road until nearing Vicksburg where the green overhang opened up to cotton and soybean fields. The road into town, Clay Street, drops you right off at the Vicksburg National Park. The Civil War siege of Vicksburg, and the city’s July 4th, 1863, surrender gave Union forces control over the Mississippi River. The...

A Pool Redux

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 29, 2024. Posted in Featured, General. 6 Comments on A Pool Redux

I a pool redux, I got back in the pool today. I hurt my back in March (March!) which totally disrupted my swimming. You would think swimming would be good for one’s back (I did), but one time after I swam, I couldn’t walk and that scared me off. I’m a little pissed at the doctor who didn’t give me a steroid pack like I...

Proselytizing Writing

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 17, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 8 Comments on Proselytizing Writing

I’ve been talking incessantly about contemplative writing. Y’all know me. I tend to fall into things. Then I’ve got to share my new loves. But this time it’s not entirely my fault. People keep asking, what are you writing these days? I make some desultory remark about novels that are doing great in contests but...

My New Pair of Wings

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 13, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, LOVE, Writing. 6 Comments on My New Pair of Wings

My favorite wings are the silver and brown leather wings I bought for myself several years ago. Christmas had arrived, and all the years of my childhood, Christmas meant new wings. Bright-colored jeans and a long sleeve snap shirt and cap guns in their holsters, too. Maybe I was nostalgic or maybe I was feeling sorry for myself, but I wanted a...

My Way of Talking

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 21, 2024. Posted in Featured, General. No Comments on My Way of Talking

My way of talking, it seems, is stringing together one story then another then another. This spells conversation to me. The stories are associational. Oh, you had an experience with barbed wire? Let me tell you how as children we pried apart the strands of barbed wire on Mamo’s farm and bent our backs to level ourselves into the next...

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Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Goodbye

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 30, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Goodbye

Today, with our contemplative writing prompts for Lent, we say goodbye. Goodbye to the old way of looking at the world. So long to believing in violent retribution. And, most immediately, goodbye to each other. Well, I’ll still be here, but no more contemplative writing prompts for Lent. Because we won’t be with each other...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 39

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 29, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 39

When it goes dark, how do you hold onto hope? Today, with our Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 39, we’re on Good Friday. On this day, Jesus lay in the tomb with everyone believing him dead. When we don’t know a favorable outcome is in the offing, how do we hope. Write into your source of hope? When the pain in your...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 38

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 28, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 38

Today is Maundy Thursday (don’t ask me what that word means.) The traditional ritual associated with today is foot washing, because Jesus did that at the last supper which happened on a Thursday, apparently. Some churches–not many of my Episcopal tradition–recreate this experience on this Thursday of Holy Week. A church I...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 36

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 27, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 36

On this Wednesday of Holy Week, we are about to begin an incredibly human time. Yes, events end with the astonishment that is God. But first we have disappointment, betrayal, bullying, calculation, and violence. The underside of humanity. That truth will inform our Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 36, For our contemplative writing...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 35

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 26, 2024. Posted in Featured, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 35

Today’s Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 35 is inspired by Ordinary Time. There’s actually a liturgical period called that. Don’t ask me anything else about it. But it’s the in-between times. The period when no big thing is happening, liturgically. That we honor it with its own name and recognition satisfies my...