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Ode to Mud

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 18, 2024. Posted in Featured, LOVE, Writing. 8 Comments on Ode to Mud

My first love was mud. In the backyard of the pink house in Denver on the corner of a street lined with other one-story tract houses, my little family lived. Mother didn’t plant, Daddy Joe didn’t garden. The bushes were scarce and scraggly, whatever the developer had set in the ground. Untended, like three-year-old me in the springtime yard in...

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Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Not

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 18, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Not

Good morning. You might be expecting a Contemplative Writing Prompt for Lent this morning. But the title of this post—Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: Not—tells you what you need to know. I won’t be sending a prompt today, as Sundays are not part of Lent. We did not practice Lent this way when I was a child. When I was a kid,...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 3

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 17, 2024. Posted in General, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 3

If you’d like an explanation for this series of posts, peruse this introductory post. Otherwise, feel free to take the next twenty minutes and write on the Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent 3: For ten minutes, write what is in front of you. Use your five senses. It helps me to make a list down the left side of the page (sight, smell,...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 2

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 16, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. 2 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent: 2

If you’d like an explanation for this series of posts, peruse this introductory post. Otherwise, feel free to take the next twenty minutes and write on the prompt: Take five minutes and make a list of compromises you’ve made in life. Now take the next fifteen minutes and write on one of these compromises. Was it within...

Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 15, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Writing. 8 Comments on Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent

Mardi Gras is over. Lent has come upon us. For the next forty days (or so), those of us who follow the Lenten tradition will be focusing on practices designed to bring us closer to God. The goal is to prepare for Easter’s hallelujah moment of rebirth. This year, I will prepare by using Contemplative Writing Prompts for Lent. Lent and...

Ten Days Puny

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 5, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 14 Comments on Ten Days Puny

Ten days I have been puny. As in 103 spiked temperature, followed by a long slow decline. The fever was a reaction to medicine. I recovered, fully enough to enjoy a writing conference in the Kiln. But the next week I spent more time horizontal than upright. Low grade fever. Constant headache. Abdominal pain. I finally decided it was a kidney...

Defragmenting Ourselves

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 9, 2024. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 6 Comments on Defragmenting Ourselves

When I was practicing law and computers were becoming networked, our IT expert insisted we turn off our machines every night. While the computers were sleeping, they were busy defragmenting, which meant pulling back together the pieces of data that had broken apart (at least that was how I understood it.) She said, if I didn’t turn off my...

How I Forgot 2023

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on December 30, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 6 Comments on How I Forgot 2023

Going back through my 2023 date book to add recurring appointments to the 2024 book was eye-opening. It made me see how I forgot 2023. I could easily remember some wonderful new developments in my life in 2023. The Contemplative Writing Group, for one. My informal group of NOLA women asking the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana to own up to its...

Writing Alchemy

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 18, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 10 Comments on Writing Alchemy

To take everyday ingredients and create magic out of them. That’s what happened this morning at City Park: writing alchemy. The ordinary: beignets. Okay, maybe beignets aren’t so ordinary. Puffed dough, fried ’til airy inside and crispy on the out, smothered in confectioner’s sugar. (I’m not exaggerating; I...

Phillis Wheatley Poetry Fest

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 5, 2023. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 2 Comments on Phillis Wheatley Poetry Fest

I will take this extra hour of Daylight Savings Time’s end to tell you about this week’s Phillis Wheatley Poetry Fest in Jackson. Jackson State University sponsored the fest. The attendees met both in the downtown Convention Center and on the JSU campus. It was fabulous. Concurrent sessions began each day. A large gathering in the...