Tag: nature

• Etymology of “goodbye”

  

  Emily has sent in her response to the latest prompt of saying goodbye. Saying goodbye always provokes a mix of feelings. There are those which come easy, promising a quick getaway, and those which linger. Heavy, reluctant, making you wish you didn’t have to go at all. So I looked it up. It turns out…

  Robert Hiraeth

  4th August 2026

  Prompts

  blessed be, blessings, circle of life, culture, dailyprompt, druidry, etymology, farewell, folklore, goodbye, grief, language, nature, paganism, personal essay, prompt, reflection, ritual, sky burial, spirituality, Tibetan Buddhism, word origins, writing prompt

• 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 hummingbird…

  Robert Hiraeth

  29th October 2025

  Essays & Reflections

  appreciation, cosmic insignificance, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2107, everyday beauty, existentialism, garden, gratitude, hummingbirds, life lessons, living in the moment, meaning of life, mindfulness, mortality, nature, nihilism, perspective, Philosophy, purpose, self-reflection, short life, thunderstones