My Lucid Reality

An Exercise in Imagination – Self

On Mondays I like to take a moment to focus on the details of an object, it’s a relaxing exercise that should improve vocabulary and writing skills.  We take an object, focus on the details and then describe it either poetically or otherwise. We are the authors of our own stories; imagine you were to read [...]

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Off The Wall Philosophy – Sandwich

They say that you are what you eat, I say that what you are defines a lot about who you are.  If you eat “just any chocolate” then that differentiates you from someone who eats “only the best” chocolates, this is the same with pickles, and candy bars, if you avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup, [...]

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An Exercise in Imagination – Water

On Mondays I like to take a moment to focus on the details of an object, it’s a relaxing exercise that should improve vocabulary and writing skills.  We take an object, focus on the details and then describe it either poetically or otherwise. Water Words that come to mind as I tilt the cup to the left [...]

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An Exercise in Imagination – Clouds

This is a trick that I use for getting more detail from objects, it’s a little relaxing and I hope to use it to become a better writer.  I take an object, or an item, and then I focus on the details that I think would describe it best. Cloud The cloud billowed far overhead, its movement [...]

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Brightest Dawn

The dawn feels brighter when the night’s been so dark.  Or, that’s what I kept telling myself as the stars gasped against a sky shushed by the whimper of ever present street lights and all night liquor stores.  There was no driving out of town, no chance to escape that star crushing murmur, I have [...]

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