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Writing 1

• What is your work? How does it make you feel? How do you do your job? Write all about it.
• You came in with a backpack—visible or invisible—loaded with stuff. What’s in it? What in there are you excited about? What would you like to leave behind?
• Continue this sentence: “I am…”

Writing 2

• What does it mean to be “abnormally normal” or “normally abnormal”?
• The fear of death. The fear of living.
• Write about peace. Social peace. Inner peace. Peace-ing out. And so on.

Writing 3

• Versions of this idea have been quoted by many people over the last 175 years, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama. What do you think about it? Agree? Disagree? It is: “The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.”
• Write about justice and freedom or about injustice and systems of oppression.
• Write a poem about all or any: autumn, Halloween, the changing seasons…