Looking Up
Weeds & Wildflowers August Prompt
Looking up. . .
It has many meanings. There is the obvious physical motion of turning your head and eyes upward to view something overhead — maybe to see the Great Egret in Janice Gill’s photo. Thank you, Janice, for providing our stunning August banner.
Or, looking up might mean getting better, as in, my finances are looking up.
Looking up can mean researching, as in, I looked up the meaning of disenfranchisement.
It can also indicate admiration, as in, I always looked up to Mary because she was smart and reliable.
I’ve been looking up a lot recently, first, in the physical sense. We get our worst tropical storms and hurricanes here in Florida in late July, August, and September. I read the sky daily, looking for signs of what’s coming.
I also tend to have my nose in the air as I look up for birds. I love birds. I love photographing birds. Many birds are high up. So, I walk around with my head and eyes looking up, searching trees and power lines.
I’m constantly looking up information as I’m writing. Google is my looking-up friend.
Lastly, my view of the future is looking up because I’m finally starting the retirement process.
Think about what looking up means to you. Go outside and take photos of what you see when you look up. Write how your life, work, relationship, or health is improving. Tell us about someone you look up to. Or share a gem of knowledge gathered through research.
Photos. Poems. Essays. Stories. Your choice.
Please use Writing Prompt Response as one of your topics/tags.
Now that we’ve taken care of the future, let’s look at the past — specifically, July.
First, thank you, Christine Morris Ph.D., for providing our July banner, and thank you to Deepti Kannapan for helping me with our unusual July prompt/challenge. For the first time, I urged everyone to participate in a drawing challenge. Although I’m no artist, I participated, too. Unfortunately, I only had time for one try at capturing Christine’s bird on paper, but I haven’t thrown in the towel. I want to try again or maybe take a stab at a different photo. So can you. Weeds & Wildflowers prompts and challenges have no deadlines or expiration dates, so you’re welcome to keep drawing and sharing your creations.
Below are the brave souls who participated in the drawing challenge:
Allisonn Church
https://readmedium.com/drawing-upon-life-love-c408d1fb82df
Janice Gill
https://readmedium.com/sketching-wildlife-from-photographs-461ce8b5d672
https://readmedium.com/love-in-a-mist-water-soluble-pencil-sketch-b768227d70d8
Anne Bonfert
https://readmedium.com/holding-on-e92d2053cc43
Deepti Kannapan
https://readmedium.com/a-delightful-week-of-bird-drawing-d79ac5c58e64
Thalia Dunn
https://readmedium.com/drawing-instead-of-writing-76d60c02e027
Akemi Sagawa
https://readmedium.com/my-bird-sketch-my-shake-up-93b202b251cf
Dennett
https://readmedium.com/im-chuffed-c22506f9a350
If you participated in the challenge, but your piece isn’t in the list above, it’s probably because you used the wrong tag/topic. The tag/topic, Writing Prompt Response, routes your submission to our Writing Prompt section, where I can gather them easily for the monthly prompt responses list.
And last but never least, Louise Peacock covered for me several days in July when I was busy with appointments and work. Thank you, Louise!
As always, I’m grateful for each and every one of you — the readers and the contributors — who make Weeds & Wildflowers a very special place.
© Dennett 2023