Freewriters

To the Moon, a freewrite

I could use a lift to the moon and back on Ralph Cramdens fist, or wait, not Ralph's - was it Ralph's?

Do I have severe memory loss? The kind that needs treatment? The kind that is pathological not just my usual spacey self who has smoked too much dope in her lifetime and could probably benefit from a few doses of homeopathic Cannabis indica to wipe all that spaciness and wasted time away?

The question is, do I really want to cure myself of this spaciness? It can be very pleasant, after all, just sitting on the porch watching the leaves wave around, wondering how the sun gets through the leaf to its underside so that the very bottoms of the leaves will glow to my eyes. It's quite pretty that leaf, those leaves, and I can get absolutely enmeshed with them, send out my chi to them so we are all enveloped by plasma, no technology needed. Much better than bulbs burning the skin, don't you think? Just me, the cats, the dogs, the plants and the leaves allowing whatever it is that turns the world to keep turning the little bits of our worlds.

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This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge. Today's prompt is I need a lift.

I'm trying to get back into freewriting more regularly. It can be so exhiliarating! Makes me wanna get up off my derriere and do something!

I used Eggtimer while I madly wrote, then made proofreading corrections only. I had fun! It started off as a poem, morphed into prose, then ended with bits of a poem I wrote many years ago. That poem went something like this:

Skim this lake with the wingtip of your tongue dart, turn, skip, twist, glide. then rest with me here for a bit so our worlds can turn without my having to push mine.

Thank you for reading!

image by my daughter

Comments · 3

@deirdyweirdy(72)· 16d
In my opinion you are perfectly spacey, so no cure needed!
@ericvancewalton(81)· 17d
I really enjoyed reading this! I, too, have enjoyed my share of cannabis throughout the years (as you could probably surmise). These days the most I'll do is half a 10mg gummy in the evenings. I find life more enjoyable with it although I do take regular breaks from time-to-time to cleanse. I've noticed I dream so much more during those cleansing periods.
@teknon(73)· 18d
I guess the question isn’t whether you should cure yourself of the spaciness, but whether every kind of wandering needs to be cured at all. There’s something whimsical about being able to sit still pretty long to notice the underside of a leaf glowing in the sun, to feel connected to the animals, the plants, and all the tiny things that keep the world moving.

Now of course, there’s a difference between losing yourself in the moment and losing pieces of yourself altogether. But perhaps not every forgotten thought is a symptom, and not every wandering mind is a broken one. It could simply be a mind that refuses to walk in a straight line.

PS: think I’m being too serious with the reply. Don’t mind me, I like to think too deeply sometimes.

Lovely use of the prompt btw<3