(Tonight’s meeting will be from 7-8:15pm. We will address the below prompts at our own pace. Have fun! Don’t think too much!)
1 -Intro…. How are you? What are you thinking as the year comes to its close? What do you see for yourself for 2021? Any stories of happiness or humor….?
2 -Freewriting…. Okay, but free from what? OURSELVES.
3 -Thinking is often the obstruction, the block that so many talk about. “I have writer’s block.” Bullshit, you have YOU. Go outside you, even if writing about your life.
4 -This pandemic and all the isolation, all the sequestering and quarantining, I would hope would show you that not much is needed to write. And if not, look again.
5 -Writing is a choice for some, and not for others. For some, it’s just what needs to be done.
6 -Have you ever tried something and have it turn into something else, something amazing that you didn’t expect?
7 – Your stories. You have stories. Don’t try to tell us you don’t. Additionally, don’t say your life or your stories are boring. That’s for readers to decide, not you.
8 – Tom Foreman, ‘Running Dangerously’…. What do you expect? Should you expect anything? What have you heard?
9 – Do you run? Do you exercise? How do you manager your time? This book is about running, but only partially. Much of it is about life and what we choose to do with our time here.
10 – Close. What’s on tonight’s page…. What are you going to do over the next 48 hours, till our next session?
ASSIGNMENT: Get Mr. Foreman’s book please, if you haven’t already.
ASSIGNMENT: Write about you, something from your life, and prepare an excerpt to share next class.
ASSIGNMENT: Email me a letter, no set length, on what you’re going to do to get the grade you want in this course.
ENJOY YOUR WRITING.
#professormikey 
Hi everyone I’m happy for my new job and I’m happy that I’ve payed off all my debt this year.
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Hi Cassandra!! Congrats on the new job!! Cheers to your independence from debt!!! That’s awesome!! ✊🏽
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Good Evening Everyone! My day was just like any other day except with rain, I kind of like it though cause things seem to go slower in time’s sense. Driving in the rain scares me though, it always has brought me anxiety especially now that I have kids. People seem reckless at times and are not looking out for others. I decorated our module in clinic today for X-mas! I know too soon? I love it though, it brings me so much joy especially now given whats happening in the world. We need joy!
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Yes we do!!! Great to see you Consuelo, as always. 😊
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Good to be here!
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Hello!
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Hey Kaylin!!
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What’s up guys hope everyone is having a great evening.
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Hello! My day was the exact same just like all other days. I’m stuck informant of a screen more than 7 hours already… The rain actually makes me feel better, since I haven’t seen it for a long long time.
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The rain helps with my perspective as well..
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Had a great day. Worked out in the rain and it was refreshing. I hope next year everything can open back up. Really want to go to the zoo in 2021.
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Hello everyone!! Happy Tuesday!!!
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Hey Ethon.. welcome!!
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My day was more on the mellow side which is great cause that’s exactly the kind of day I want to have with this weather! Absolutely love the rain (:
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Me too!!!
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It’s been a good day, also a good week. I’ve loved the weather lately although it’s been random this past week. I love when it’s cold and it rains. What I’m thinking as the year comes to an end is how much better it’s been the more we get into it. Hopefully life can start coming back to normal a little bit over time.
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For 2021 I plan to continue to work on my mommy/wife skills as well as my education, I see a lot of good things happening for everyone, it’s going to a great year to come!
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Love that attitude.
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Heys guys! It was a hard day today, mostly concerning of my future, hopefully all will fall into place. 2021 will bring more school and hopefully peace of mind.
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Cheers Patricia.. good to see you.
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Hello everyone, today be a busy day. I have midterms to turn in before spring break and I been so busy with them and my kids. It went by so fast I still can’t believe it. It’s almost over. I hope next year is better than this one Too much happen this year
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Freely writing…. that’s what writing should always be. What do you think?
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Writing is recorded thought, to page.. you think freely so why not write in the same claim?
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Freedom… what we ALL want.
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Freedom from self to gather more SELF…. do some synaptic laps in that…
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What do you want from your OWN writing? How do you OWN it?
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Online classes are so hard I wish they wear in person!
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Tell me about it. And, “WERE”. lol
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Aside from the fact that there have been many changes globally due to the pandemic that we’ve all had to adjust to, I feel like there has also been many changes I have gone through emotionally and internally this year. This was a year of reflection and soul searching that I didn’t even plan on doing lol but happened and feel like there will be some sort of cycle ending for me once 2021 comes around. For a long time I have dealt with the feeling of being “stuck” but this year I got to understand where and why that feeling came from, making me feel better and at peace with life. This year I learned sooo much about my self and my capabilities and think that 2021 will be the year where I experience life more peacefully and happier. Or at least I hope so!! lol
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I am thinking about food constantly hahaha with Thanksgiving coming i am so excited! I want it all. I want to eat all the time, I mean all the time.
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Freewriting, you’re free from any specific instructions and free from the typical writing style. When you’re writing your way, it’s up to you what must be written.
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Very well said.
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Writing should be free, we should be free to express our selfs, i feel like some people hold back on writing free because they dont want to be judged by something they say
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good evening everyone, i hope everyone is doing well. still kinda getting the week started after my trip to LA over the weekend. As this year comes to a close im kinda hoping the whole pandemic thing just kinda goes away but i know its not likely. We’ve been living like this for the passed 8 months and as soon as you know it its gonna be a year (hopefully not). Even though ive still been working through the pandemic i feel like its has still taken its mental toll on me. But i’m looking forward to the holidays ill be going back down to LA to spend Christmas with my dad and it’ll be his first Christmas with my daughter so that will be nice. For 2021 i plan to pay off my debt again, i had already paid it off at the start of the year but the pandemic has also had its financial affect and although im not in a huge hole i would still rather not have any debt.
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I have been working on debt too, i don’t have that much either, but its so easy to get into it, especially now.
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Freewriting should always be free because it always about your life and youself!
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Free writing need to be free, it needs to be what you first think about in your mind. It is why it is free write.
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I have also been thinking about me and my feelings, I tend to be a very emotional person who must release her emotions. It doesn’t matter how I just have to. I’ve been writing about it, About my boys, mom life and student life now as well as work life. I want to go part time so I can spend more time with my boys but it’s hard, Money is a factor but more so scheduling. I feel like sometimes I forget about myself and my Mental wellness. I’m slowly working on it.
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Good for you!!!
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free writing is where you can just put what ever is on your mind on paper. it doesnt even have to make sense, just get it out there. And once its on the paper then you can try to make sense of it or just take a sigh of relief that you got it out and burn the paper
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Had some internet interruptions, but I’m back y’all…. Give me a sec to catch up..
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I tried skydiving, Not going to lie, I was anxious about it but it was before I had kids and I felt I needed the experience. I did it and I absolutely loved it. I want to do it again but now that I have kids it’s kind of hard. I would do it again given the opportunity for sure.
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Holy f/ck…. really? That’s great!!! RESPECT.
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Thanks!
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Tell us about you and this pandemic… what has it done to your creativity?? Your production? Your SELF?
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The pandemic has shown me that too much concern is compromising.
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I used to run a lot, then I tore my ACL and had a meniscal tear so it all went down hill from there. I am semi active now but not as much as I’d like to be. I know I can change that but the lack of motivation doesn’t help much either. I want to get into bicycling actually, I heard it was better for knees. I also love swimming and used to do that a lot too but then Covid happened.
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Hi, . Looking forward to another year of studying as I really have found that I enjoy school. I see that it WILL be a new year and this will provide new opportunities for not only myself but for others as well. I find a certain humor in this that makes me want to continue and persevere. Yes, I have tried something new and I see that it can change. Whether it be the tide or the pace, the change is within ourselves and the outside world as well. It can even help us manifest our goals and desires for a better life, it is interesting how some days can be the best days we have ever had learning and other days maybe we only learn one or two things. Yet, we keep those one or two things within ourselves and our mind. Spirit, desire, higher goals, and really anything we want too. I have the Tom Foreman book now and am reading attentively. I have started running and exerting what I want to feel like not only within but with my self as well. I am learning to take studying more seriously and really appreciate when I have a good day, because few and far fetched is it that we hold ourselves back from what we actually want to be studying or learning. The kind of energy within ourselves. The energy we receive and the people that we learn to care for and love. With a high sense of faith, a good imagination, and an unrelenting desire to improve ourselves we can learn differences within and apply this to how we manage our time. What I feel is exactly what so many people don’t want to hear. We are ready for the kind of lives that we really should be not only adapting too, taking care of, but living as well. This is important because we have no reason to give up on our own harmony, balance, or dreams. Aspirations, goals and feelings towards not only ourselves but others as well. This we can do with studying obviously, yet I insist it is not what you study but the fact that you are studying, not what you learn but that you are learning, and not what people try to say instead it can be what we feel inside our heart. A passion in mind, and the rhythm of our very souls that we are learning about. This is not selfish or of disinterest it is very much within that we must delve to become better each time we do ask ourselves the better questions and learn to love others the way we love ourselves. All that aside there is a magic to the world that is true, beyond belief, always with meaning and forever eternal. Like a favorite song, or a sport we have not tried, a bucket list that is being created or a heart that says not today. Today is for others and I. Today is not only about me but we. When we start going for something that we believe in we really shouldn’t stop our dreams, because these goals are real. Thoughts and beliefs usually matter, we don’t always see eye to eye but always hope too. And when the days come that we do see eye to eye there is really nothing as special or important as it. We learn to have the same unrelenting faith as we do in ourselves as others do for ourselves and our own two eyes as well. We learn to clear maybe just the right amount of space within ourselves as others are clearing for themselves and we live triumphantly and always stay true to ourselves.
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Not much is needed to write. Agree? Disagree? Whatever your weigh-in, explain yourself.
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To be straight up, this is true not much is needed . Only our selves and a good sense of living or trying to be living the way we desire when we do.
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Yes.. elaborate if you would.
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Hi, im alriioght. Looking forward to another year of studying as I really have found that I enjoy school. I see that it WILL be a new year and this will provide new opportunities for not only myself but for others as well. I find a certain humor in this that makes me want to continue and persevere. Yes, I have tried something new and I see that it can change. Whether it be the tide or the pace, the change is within ourselves and the outside world as well. It can even help us manifest our goals and desires for a better life, it is interesting how some days can be the best days we have ever had learning and other days maybe we only learn one or two things. Yet, we keep those one or two things within ourselves and our mind. Spirit, desire, higher goals, and really anything we want too. I have the Tom Foreman book now and am reading attentively. I have started running and exerting what I want to feel like not only within but with my self as well. I am learning to take studying more seriously and really appreciate when I have a good day, because few and far fetched is it that we hold ourselves back from what we actually want to be studying or learning. The kind of energy within ourselves. The energy we receive and the people that we learn to care for and love. With a high sense of faith, a good imagination, and an unrelenting desire to improve ourselves we can learn differences within and apply this to how we manage our time. What I feel is exactly what so many people don’t want to hear. We are ready for the kind of lives that we really should be not only adapting too, taking care of, but living as well. This is important because we have no reason to give up on our own harmony, balance, or dreams. Aspirations, goals and feelings towards not only ourselves but others as well. This we can do with studying obviously, yet I insist it is not what you study but the fact that you are studying, not what you learn but that you are learning, and not what people try to say instead it can be what we feel inside our heart. A passion in mind, and the rhythm of our very souls that we are learning about. This is not selfish or of disinterest it is very much within that we must delve to become better each time we do ask ourselves the better questions and learn to love others the way we love ourselves. All that aside there is a magic to the world that is true, beyond belief, always with meaning and forever eternal. Like a favorite song, or a sport we have not tried, a bucket list that is being created or a heart that says not today. Today is for others and I. Today is not only about me but we. When we start going for something that we believe in we really shouldn’t stop our dreams, because these goals are real. Thoughts and beliefs usually matter, we don’t always see eye to eye but always hope too. And when the days come that we do see eye to eye there is really nothing as special or important as it. We learn to have the same unrelenting faith as we do in ourselves as others do for ourselves and our own two eyes as well. We learn to clear maybe just the right amount of space within ourselves as others are clearing for themselves and we live triumphantly and always stay true to ourselves.
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With this pandemic there a lot to talk about even though we are at home isolated, It’s funny how everyone taking the toilet paper and the water from the stores. Like why do they do that? I could write a story about that.
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Yes you could!!
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OMG right? Like why the toilet paper? do they think they’ll shit so much they need it if they get it?!?
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Come on sis, keep it clean…
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omg yes I thought the same thing lol
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For tonight’s page….. Build you ideas from curiosity and whim, not from structure or obligation. Pattern is pollution..
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I mean I definitely think writing is a choice if you’re talking about ways to express yourself because there are other ways to do that such as music, etc.
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This pandemic has made me appreciate my loved ones and my life. Our health and our mental health. Having a baby in this pandemic is hard especially when no one has seen them. I felt alone in the beginning not so much anymore because we got used to it. Facetime is our best friend.
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Being a parent of a little, little one now is tough. I know, believe me. Respect to you, and thanks again for the posts and offering of thought..
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Yes, I agree with you have a baby in this pandemic made it harder And more in the hospital where no one could visit you! My mom is always there when I deliver and because of the pandemic, she couldn’t be there.
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Totally get it. Was in the same boat. RESPECT.
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I agree, not much is needed to write, if you are passionate about your topic, the thoughts and words will come easy to ypou.
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WE have so much more control over what we do and write it’s comical, truly.. Stop with your convenient calculations and procrastinations… ESTABLISH YOUR BEAT. Create that music y’all… in EVERYTHING you do.
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I definitely agree that it’s in our control, but how do we GET that control? ?How do we not only focus, but also enjoy it as well? That is what I struggle with the most.
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Everyone does. You just focus more on the reality you can rather than any potential of ‘can’t’..
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With the pandemic it has sort of diminished my creativity or i should say made it a bit dormant. But these blog seesions have actually helped me to somewhat bring it back up. A very positive thing that came from this was that i finally took the leap (somewhat forced) and left my 9-5 job and now i work on my own schedule and its such a weight off my shoulders to not have someone constantly looking over my shoulders. I’m still kinda figuring it out but the nice thing is ive been able to work on some of the projects that i hadn’t touched in months so in some way that has helped my creativity too but now with the rain i havent been able to work on my projects
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Turn it around, re-mold perspective and sight and scope my man…
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Tom Foreman, ‘Running Dangerously’…. What do you expect? Should you expect anything? What have you heard?
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I think it depends on what it is we are writing about that results with how much is needed to write. If I have to write about a topic I don’t find interesting, I will need a lot of info and patience. If It’s something about me or a topic I find fascinating, I can go on and on effortlessly.
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I have been trying to learn how to cook out of my comfort zone which has led me to realize I am really good baker.. I have been able to make french bread and scones.
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I expect there to be a lot of running and getting into his thoughts. I’m assuming while he runs.
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Do you run?
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Used to a lot but then I tore my ACL and well it hasn’t been the same
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So sorry.. find peace, and I hope you’re back on pavement soon!!
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What is your relationship with time? How do you manage or steer or shape it?
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I think that the new book will probably be funny well I hope it since the past two books were about humor.
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It’s a different humor…
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Life… what we choose to do with our time here.
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