The Big Tent

Hi everyone,

The Creative’s Workshop is challenging me with prompts.
Think, think, think….
Who are you serving?
What are you serving?
Why are you serving it?

I wrote the prompt response below.
What I’m wondering is…Am I’m hitting my mark?

Do my letters feel like shared conversation?
Are we growing together?
Do you have any feedback for me?

All thoughts are welcome via comments or email reply to this message.
Thanks!

G

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Prompt:
What’s the way in to what you do? Why is it approachable?
What’s the way out? What’s a productive way to take the change and pay it forward?

In:

Ladies and Gentlemen! Step this way!
Yes, yes….that’s right!
That’s how you do it!
Look,
look,
look,
at that inviting scene…puppy, sunrise, forest, flower.
Notice! The colors, lines, shapes…
Does the photo move you to feel something?
Does the photographer’s love of subject reach out and grab you by your collar?

Now—ladies and gentlemen,
move along with words,
flowing sweet and slow like honey from a jar.
Does the poet speak to your soul?
Pause a moment before moving….

Ladies and gentlemen
did you breathe and reflect
because story is next
and you’re invited to co-author the text!

Step along if you dare to read a
scene from daily life.
Has this happened to you?
Would you like it to?
Have a quiet conversation with the lady who holds the pen.
You’re in this together……

Out:

Ladies and gentlemen!
The torch is now yours.
How will you pay forward this display of intimacy and connection?

Are you just a hair
more self-aware?

Will your curiosity push you
beyond mediocrity?

Good vibes will you spread
like jam on fresh bread?

Will you go the extra mile
to share your smile?

Does vulnerability
allow you to be you
and me to be me?

Now that you understand
reality as fragments
is your shape malleable like Playdoh
and less like hard cement?

You came
You saw
You felt

Now it’s your turn
to share the cards
that were dealt.