Thoughts I Have Often

Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Deck prompts — Tell me about thoughts you have often — thoughts that are repeated but never go anywhere, never manifest.

Thoughts I have often

Daily prayer and then

Many thoughts of others

Family, friends, my brothers

neighbors,

John, our children,

grandchildren,

and great grandchildren

future generation,

Thank you for my health

the help I receive daily

will keep me moving in stealth

mode to do all that I see

to do. I want to keep

healthy to leap

into more and more

this for sure and I do adore

what is out there for me to score

points with Creator

doing my best

to give to the rest

what I can, it's not a test

I do not jest

some do and some don’t manifest!

Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Deck prompts — You might even start with a list. Note the different directions your mind travels with no traction. Include fantasies. In a sense, all thoughts arise and pass away, are not real, are fantasies, are a mystery in how they roll through us. Writing, meditation, is a chance to taste your mind and its rolling thoughts, to become aware of how you function as a human being. It’s a wild ride when you turn and look at it.

Writing fiction — Can I work an honesty program and still write fiction?

I work to stay in the present. That means I don’t have many wild thoughts.

Staying in today, not thinking about yesterday or tomorrow.

Praying for God’s will, not mine is difficult at this time. It goes to politics

and fear. I don’t care to go there now.

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Authors Note: I finish Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Deck prompts soon, as this is number 56 of 60 prompts.