Pick a noun or a verb and, in 10 lines or less, write a definition about something or someone. Don’t worry if your memory is accurate or not. LET GO. Let this definition honour your history. Period.
Wicket from Word Well – who today is the hubby.
TIME (sheesh. he’s knows me too well.)
Time: (noun) 1. the thing that [tries] to control the experience of my life, 2. a feeling the shifts with energy and thought through minutes, hours, days, etc. 3. something that changes speed, 4. as in it’s time to go – a marker of doing, 5. a metaphorical way to explain movement, 6. a literal way to measure movement, 7. the plot (main character?) of a story we each tell, 8. as in sleep time – a place to go to dream, 9. as in remember that time? the holder of memories, 10. as in it’s time for my daily popsicle (Miller) – a place holder for a recurring action, 11. something I can’t escape, 12. as in let’s not do that again – a living space past that ought not re-occur, 13. as in just let me write for 15 minutes! a collection of moments one wants for herself that are difficult to get when the family is home, 14. as in see you next time! – an in-the-future looking-forward-to, 15. as in it was her time to go – a word to mark an ending, 16. as in it’s my time to shine! – a word to mark an extraordinary action/occurrence,. 17. past, present, future, this moment, moments collected, moments to come, 18. as in we’re running out of – something to lose, 19. as in this is it! – all things, all the feelings, all the love, all the pain, all the everything in each breath, 20. love’s holder, 21. a theme to many great songs (ex. Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time), 22. as in How long is he in office for? – a chance given from a start date to an end date for someone to control things…
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