Explore your thoughts

The prompt today encourages us to note down our thoughts. Writer Within author, Nina Karnikowski, says watching thoughts arise and then pass away can be incredibly calming, and the basis of many meditation techniques. Prompt 5: Explore your thoughts today, starting each sentence with I am thinking. I am thinking the breeze is nice today, just cool enough to let me know that autumn is coming. I am thinking it’s nice to see the tree outside my window wave its branches to the breeze as it sweeps past from cloudy skies. I am thinking of endings and beginnings, of starting something new because we are forced to walk away from something that has firmly closed. I am thinking how terrifying the unknown can be when the future looks uncertain. I am thinking of ignoring the dishes in our kitchen sink for just a little longer, but I may cave to its nagging guilt soon. I am thinking the draft play I sent out to my class for feedback, worried that it’s bad or that my ideas will be stolen. I am…