Writing Prompt

A Sense of Purpose

Quote Prompt №13

I am back with a new quote, and I hope you all will participate! I have loved reading your poetry and thoughts on these prompts.

Welcome to Quote Prompt № 13!

This week’s quote called to me not only because of the amazing author of these words and the book they come from, but also they remind me to go ahead and start again. I have honestly been in a stuck place. Mourning fatigue, the awful state of our world, and my often sense of futility during this pandemic has gotten me down. I have found myself exhausted after working through two items on my father’s estate to-do list. I mean two small tasks: sending a check to the attorney handling the estate and signing a form send me back to bed with Netflix and popcorn (and an attitude of “I can’t even…”).

Monday I go back to work. By back to work I mean I go to my school to teach summer workshops rather than teach on-line and work from home. My son will be there at camp all day too. I am worried about the exposure to people of course, but we have strict day camp social distancing and prevention of virus protocols all set up. I am having to rethink everything. There is a closeness in teaching. There is an intimacy in a teacher-student relationship that helps students learn. Kids touch each other. I have no idea how I will keep them compliant.

This is going to be really hard, but I am ready to leave my nest. If anything, it will prepare me for August, when the whole school will function under these new protocols. I will get used to wearing a face covering. But mostly, it will give me a sense of purpose, which I hope will start to set me free.

I hope everyone reading this (and those not reading it) are staying safe and healthy! And please, wear your mask.

Here is the prompt:

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

If you would like, respond to the quote above with a poem, short story, essay, or whatever creative expression you wish. I cannot wait to see what you come up with this time! Please link this post to your submission!

Because of the increased interest in becoming a writer with Sky Collection, I have new submission guidelines. If you would like to become a writer here, please email me a draft of your work at [email protected]. We welcome poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and all sub-genres!

© Samantha Lazar 2020

Thank you for reading. I’m a teaching and writing mom. I write poetry, fiction, and essays in celebration of being a Mom, Wife, Educator, Writer, & Lover of Life. ❤POMpoet❤ Follow my 2020 Sky Collection Project, and subscribe to my newsletter to keep up to date!

Tagging some writers, but all are welcome!

Christina M. Ward 💗 Ashwini Dodani Agnes Louis Shringi Kumari Stacey Christiansen Melissa A. Rowe, MEd List Craig Lora K Lucente John L Dahle Janis Cox Nathalie Amazan Lynne Nardizzi Dennett Thomas Gaudex Melissa Wilson Thomas Plummer Steven Clifford Anna Rozwadowska Kristen v.H. Middleton Priyanka Srivastava Sylvia Wohlfarth G.R. MELVIN Tammi Brownlee Anitha Sankaran D. E. Fulford Harshita Kathryn A. LeRoy Elise Roy Reichle Guérin Kà Arjan Tupan Kiera S. Weaver Jenny Justice Lisa Bolin Brian Fehler Sasha Domnitz A Medic’s Musings Jonathan Fashanu J.D. Harms