Anyway, here is a prompt from 2 weeks ago:
The Write on Wednesday Spark: Possessing Beauty
Write about a collection. Write about something you or ,someone you know, collects. Think about the "why" behind the collection - why is it important to collect this particular thing? How does it make the person feel to add another piece to their collection? Is the group of objects there to be seen, to be studied or simply kept together? Write a real life story or a piece of fiction. Wherever the prompt takes you...Keep your post on the short side: up to 500 words OR a 5 minute stream of consciousness exercise. Link your finished piece to the list and begin popping by the other links. Oh, and enjoy!
She flipped the pages of the scrapbook carefully, making sure not to touch the exposed photographs. "I really need to get pages covers for these." Emerson stated to her sister as she continued to peruse the pages. "I know that I have the perfect picture of us with grandpa, but I just can't remember what book it is in"
"You have so many pictures." Kasley sighed as she picked up another scrapbook to look through. "I didn't even know one person could take so many pictures. Why do you have so many? How could you possibly need so many?"
"I don't know. It's not really about wanting or needing. I guess I just think of myself as ... as ... a collector." Emerson stated as she slipped the red book onto the shelf and pulled down the next one in the series.
"A collector? ... Of pictures?" Kasley said skeptically. "That's weird Em."
"No, not a collector of pictures, because then I could just pull things out of magazines or print things off the internet. That is not what these pictures are about. These pictures are about smiles and laughing. They are about the good times and I guess maybe the not so good times. I collect more than just pictures Kas." Emerson replied as she gazed at her best friends smiling back at her from the boat they had rented last summer. "I collect memories."
I liked this prompt a lot, and actually might do it again when I have a bit more time, so I will not give away the other thing I collect. But pictures and memories are kind of my thing. I loved scrapbooking from an early age and try to keep up with it as best I can. I must admit though I have fallen a bit behind the actual scrapbooking, but I still have all the pictures, carefully organized and ready to be viewed whenever I so desire.
It is funny, because I am the historian of most of my friend groups, and occasionally I really have to convince people to take pictures, but in the end people are grateful to have the memories to look back on.
It takes gumption to collect memories!
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