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Reverb11: Self-Forgiveness
What one thing do you need to forgive yourself for this year? Well, damn. Who would have guessed that I would have answered this prompt in my response to a previous prompt? Yet I have. Of course, if I had any notion that the subject of forgiveness would be revisited during Reverb, especially as it …
Reverb11: Author, Author.
Share with us the title and inside jacket cover of the book you would most like to write. Now that I have the prompt done correctly, (I didn’t before,) I am still faced with a difficult task. Asking a writer what book he would most like to write is probably a bit like asking a …
Reverb11: Music Is Powerful
Think of one song that you turn to time and again and describe why it’s important to you. As with so many such prompts, the list of possible answers is considerable for me. For how does one choose between so many songs that one goes back to over and over? What is the metric? The …
Reverb11: Memorable Gifts
What is the most memorable gift you have ever received? How appropriate and yet open-ended a prompt for Christmas Day. So many answers, depending on the criteria used. Even just within the boundaries of “memorable” lie all kinds of definitions, yielding any number of possible answers. Some years you get exactly something you had on your list. Sometimes …
Reverb11: Somebody Has To Say It
Somebody has to say it… The prompt for today came with the suggestion that it be just one sentence. So, here is mine, which I find appropriate for Christmas Eve: Some of the most Christ-like people , now and throughout history, have not been Christians. Enjoy your visions of sugar plums tonight, my friends.
