Daily Nourishment for The Twelfth Day of Christmas: Where Everything Begins

Daily Nourishment Read Time: 50 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes


Even snow
knows it’s unclean. Each flake makes its geometry
around dust, where everything begins.
- Traci Brimhall, “Dear Eros”

Pause.

Take six deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale.

 

Prompt.

Read the short chapter below from Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell then look at the painting, The Magpie, by Claude Monet.

 

Practice.

Begin writing a story, poem, essay, or letter to a friend about a weather event that may or may not have happened.

Make It Christmastide: Situate your story, poem, essay, or letter within this year’s Christmas season or one from the past or future.


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