Wanted: Prompts (or Send Me A Word - Or A Phrase - Or Some Inspired Clipping)

A couple of summers ago, Jennie and I took a daytrip to Red Wing, MN 55066. On the way home, we stopped at some garage sales near Hastings. It was at one of those sales that I picked up a couple of hinged wooden Hoyo de Monterrey de Jose Gener cigar boxes. I found them to be nice repositories of clipped writing prompts.

What I do is, when I'm reading a newspaper, magazine, etc., and I see a word or phrase that catches my eye and tickles my creativity, I clip the words out and put them into the cigar box. When I need some prompting in my writing, I reach for the box of prompts and dig. When one of the clippings sparks my brain, I begin writing.

Here is where you come in: I'm asking each of you to send me a word. Or a phrase. Something fun and creative that I can print, clip and add to the box. Just a starting off point for some freewriting.

I will post any resulting writings either here, or (if the prompt is Christian in nature) the Contemplative Encourager blogspot. If your prompt begets any writing, you will receive my deepest gratitude and a name-drop on the blog entry.

Hope to hear from you soon!