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April 14, 2008

WRITING PROMPT: The Perfect Home

Throughout our lives we always harbor a vision of the perfect home. Even when we are grown we remember the vision we conjured up as children of the ideal house. What is your dream house? Describe its looks, atmosphere, surroundings. Equally important, describe what life would be like in it.

Please share your vision with us.

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April 07, 2008

WRITING PROMPT: Words to Someone Lost to Us

You are given the chance to talk to someone whom you have lost and who was very important in your life. They may have loved you or done something very special for you. Possibly they caused you pain and heartache. What are the things you would say to that person now?

You are welcome to share your writing with us -- with your permission, we will post what you send.

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A Writer's Dream Seed Responses

Maartje sent in her responses to several Dream Seeds question writer prompts to help people express what they hope will bloom from the seeds they plant -- Dream Seeds are people's hopes for the future:

This is a dream seed for something I wish to accomplish in my life. What I want to accomplish is to:
Be the best I can be in fulfilling my purpose while living in joy and abundance and helping others to do the same.

This is a dream seed to grow smiles. When it flowers, I will present it to: The World.

This is a dream seed to cure ills. I will use the petals of its flower for: Children with cancer or other life-threatening diseases.

Its stem for: Donation to the medical world of research.

Its roots for: Growing more of those seeds.

I plant this dream seed for someone I love. Here is what I hope will blossom from the seed: Exactly what the other would have wanted or needed.

A dream seed I plant in memory of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (This seed can be an action or thought or deed you perform; write what it is). And here is what I hope will flourish: The manifestation of the well-known, beautiful dream of him.

Readers, you are welcome to send in your Dream Seed responses, too.

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