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November Realities

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Prompts for November 2023:

1. What kind of day are you having, and why?

2. What's your favorite color, place, food, book, song, or movie, and why?

Orange, garden, kao pad, "Cry, the Beloved Country", Ombra Mai Fu, "Babette's Feast"

3. What do you like to do? How does it make you feel?

4. Where are you happiest? Describe that place.

5. What's something you're good at? What makes you good at it?

Traveling. Preparation and a Plan B.

6. What do you consider to be your culture, and how do you feel about it?

Global. It's a bigger box.

7. What would you change about yourself or your life? Is there a way for you to change it?

8. What is your relationship like with various members of your family?

Not very close. No problems... just distance.

9. If you have brothers or sisters, how are you similar to them or different from them? What about with your friends?

I'm more like my older than my younger sister. My friends are eclectic.

10. What are your views on religion?

More inclusive, peaceful, equitable. Like DEI.

11. What keeps you up at night worrying? Are your worries realistic? Is there anything you can do about them?

12. Do you have a philosophy of life? If so, what is it? If not, what is your method for making important decisions?

13. In what areas are you optimistic, and in what areas are you pessimistic?

14. What are your most prized possessions?

15. Who is someone you miss?

Gary. Kevin. All the lost loves of my life.

16. What is something someone else has that you envy? Describe it and your feelings about it.

17. What is a book, movie, song, or television program that has influenced you, and how?

18. What is a mistake people often make about you?

My name. My gender.

19. What's something you disagree with about the way you were raised?

I was smothered and not taught the family secrets and how to handle common situations.

20. What's your favorite: season, color, place, or food? Describe it.

Spring and Autumn. Kansas.

Journal prompts - daydreams

21. Describe your dream: job, man/woman, house. Whatever your dream is that you wanna share.

22. How would you like your life to be when you're older?

I am older. I didn't foresee any of this.

23. What would be the guest list at your dream party? What would the various guests talk about?

24. What magic power would you like to have? How would you use it? What would it feel like?

As a child my power was invisibility.

25. If you won the lottery, what would you do?

No idea other than to set most aside for a year. At this age? No longer.

26. What's a country you'd like to visit? How do you imagine your time there?

Been to 45. Rwanda, Malawi, Senegal, Burkina Faso. Colombia, Cuba. Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan. Timor Leste, Kiribati, Vanuatu. Kentucky...

27. A dream in a tear

28. Under a star near the sea

29. Warped and wrinkled

30. Curly fries and plastic bow ties

31. Attention! Attention! Read all about it…

32. The truth often hurts

33. Blowing kisses in the storm

34. She grew and then he knew

35. Pages of perfection

36. Damp dangling tresses

37. Was it a laugh or a cry?

38. Dull knives and feisty fellas

39. Molten kisses

40. To the moon and back

Honeymooners!

41. A tale of turbulence

While flying or daily drama?

42. Disappointing disasters

43. Lipstick secrets

44. Grandma’s medicine

45. Something lost, something given

46. Evening hush

When the night blooms and the moths gather.

47. Slices of life

48. Voyage views

49. Peculiar happenings

50. Crumpled sheets and tousled hair

Morning.

51. Shoved into a closet

My childhood dreams.

53. The best part

54. Food stamps fortunes

55. Finding rainbows between the clouds

On a soft day. The sun burns in Isan.

56. What does your character do all day? Does he or she have a job or go to school?

57. What type of job does your character have—or what school subject does he or she enjoy most?

58. What is your character’s favorite holiday? Why?

59. What is your character’s favorite type of music? Why?

60. How does your character sound when he or she laughs?

61. Write a story using all the fall colors.

62. Write about doing Halloween when you were a kid.

63. Do you love it when the time falls back?

No. I think the clock-time should never change. It's needlessly disruptive.

64. Do you love it when the time springs forward?

65. Are you glad that they are talking about doing away with daylight savings?

Yes.

66. What does "one day at a time" mean to you?

67. Share something about you, that no one knows.

I keep my secrets close. My family taught me to trust no one.

68. November Rain

In the north... yes. Here... I wish.

69. What are the rules you live by?

70. What do you love most about Thanksgiving?

71. When do you start your Thanksgiving gatherings?

72. Do you watch Christmas Movies in November?

No. I watch them whenever if at all.

73. Write about what is bothering you sometimes writing it out helps if there is more than one thing you can write all of it out. Don't worry this is a safe space.

My journal is over 5 thousand pages.

74. Do you celebrate any holidays where you work? If you are in School do you all celebrate holidays?

I tried. Forced to mostly celebrate the holidays of others.

75. Write 20 things that you have completed so far this year.

76. Tell me about your anger.

Better to not share.

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