dailyprompt – Page 2 – Robert Hiraeth

Prompt 2

Hello all, here is the next writing prompt for you all. I shall close entries on March 15th. “Can you truly understand someone whose suffering you’ve never experienced, or is empathy always a kind of fiction?” You can email your responses to roberthiraeth@gmail.com and I shall publish them.

My Prompt Reply

My response to the prompt for this week: “What value do you have that sometimes causes you problems? Has this ever led you to question whether or not you should abandon it or modify it? Why or why not?” I don’t think there is a value that I have that gets me in trouble. IContinue reading “My Prompt Reply”

Community Prompt Reply

Thank you to my subscriber “C” who has written in with their response to the prompt for this week: “What value do you have that sometimes causes you problems? Has this ever led you to question whether or not you should abandon it or modify it? Why or why not?” I find that I valueContinue reading “Community Prompt Reply”

Introduction to prompts

Hello to all of you who have found their way over to this space. Whether you are first time visitors, repeat drop ins or subscribers I am honored that you would take time out of your day to read the untethered ramblings of this dispossessed prisoner. I am launching something new here that I wouldContinue reading “Introduction to prompts”

What relationships have a positive impact on you?

I have been developing a deeply intimate relationship with the music of Gunship. For a while I had veered into the gloom drenched halls of Doom Metal. There I sat, head bowed to the slow drop C fuzz of heavy electric bass, each note an inevitable step towards the void through a fog of funerealContinue reading “What relationships have a positive impact on you?”

Cartoon

What’s your favorite cartoon? Favorite cartoon? That would have to be “Home Movies”. Loren Bouchard’s early project about three kids and the films they make with the help of some strange friends and their VHS camcorder. Early appearance of H Jon Benjamin who voices Coach McGuirk, a criminally irresponsible soccer coach. It took a fewContinue reading “Cartoon”

What everyone should know

What’s something you believe everyone should know. That your life has meaning. That it’s NOT some insignificant little nothing within the vastness of an unfathomable cosmos. Value isn’t assigned to things that are common. Deep and unconditional love isn’t valued because it happens every day to everyone all of the time. I saw a hummingbirdContinue reading “What everyone should know”

How Do I Celebrate the Holidays?

How do you celebrate holidays? I don’t. Not anymore. When you are incarcerated, holidays aren’t provided by a calendar. They are wrenched out of the jaws of a numbing monotony heavy with the potential for violence. Some people celebrate holidays when they happen. Many do not. Did Sisyphus get a birthday when he got toContinue reading “How Do I Celebrate the Holidays?”