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Watermelon

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 5, 2024. Posted in General, GRIEF. 8 Comments on Watermelon

I cut into the watermelon, and I want to go back so bad. Back to the days when summer was hot but not brutal, when happiness drove me. When I swagged into the kitchen at my grandmother’s house, thumped a watermelon onto the Formica counter, and cracked a sharp knife through the rind. It was the summer after my second year of law...

New Orleans Magic

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 28, 2024. Posted in General. 2 Comments on New Orleans Magic

Today, Sunday of the first weekend in Jazz Fest when New Orleans magic pulses through the air like a fine purple spray, I saw an eighty-year-old man with hair the same color as his mauve shoes join a band playing in the Bywater in a furniture shop (a handcrafting furniture type of shop, not a gallery floor) to sing his one hit from 1958 and...

Wild Goose, Y’all

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 26, 2024. Posted in General, Writing. 8 Comments on Wild Goose, Y’all

I’m so excited. I’ve been accepted to the Wild Goose, y’all. They accepted a proposal for a contemplative writing hour as an Experience offering at this summer’s festival. Wild Goose Festival is a hippy-dippy Christian social justice festival held in fields north of Charlotte, best as I can tell. Two other...

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...

Spring Cleaning, Writer’s Style

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 14, 2024. Posted in General, Writing. 6 Comments on Spring Cleaning, Writer’s Style

In a type of spring cleaning, writer’s style, I’ve freshened up a couple of pages on the website. My Home page is more direct and shorter (you’re welcome.) Same goes for the About Me page, which is also more personal. Previously the page was all about my writing career, leading me to ask, What, you have no you other than...

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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: 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: 33

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 23, 2024. Posted in General. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 33

The world is about to change. Our Palm Sunday service tomorrow is the fulcrum. From joyful entry into Jerusalem…to “Crucify him!” Today for your Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 33, write for ten minutes on a happy memory from childhood. Put down your pen or take your fingers off the keyboard. Sit for one minute. Now...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 32

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 22, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. No Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 32

Just a reminder about these Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 32. I’ve done my best to offer prompts to help us see anew. That includes re-seeing ourselves, the world around us, and the act of writing. You can read more about this practice at the School for Contemplative Living website. Seeing anew doesn’t require a big...