Trying to be present

Prompt 8: Divide a page into 4 sections, with one of the subheadings below at the top of each section: See Hear Feel Smell Write 4 simple bullet point sentences for each sense, describing the four things you can see, hear, feel and smell around you right now. This week’s prompt from The Writer Within is all about being present in the moment. So here goes… See I see the framed poster I bought my husband for his birthday some years ago. It’s a reprint of an old poster from the 1920s of the Wimbledon tennis championships. I see the money tree on my left that I bought for our new home. I am delighted I haven’t killed it yet. I see sage green walls and a white ceiling. I see a computer on my favourite side of the dinner table. Hear I hear the very faint noise of distant traffic The blind in the bathroom clinking against the wall as the breeze comes through the open window. I think I just heard two beeps of a car horn. A quick reminder to get out of the way rather than a rage fuelled honk.…