Free Write: Peace
Today’s post is based on a writing prompt I shared in a previous Daily Drafts & Dialogues post. Keep reading to see what I wrote, and to access more writing prompts.
What I wrote below is based on the following writing prompt: Set a timer for five minutes. Once you start the timer, start free writing about what comes to your mind when you think about peace. Don't stop writing until the timer goes off. Repeat this writing exercise as many times as needed for future weeks.
Peace is neutral and calming and includes both inner and outer acceptance. Of oneself, and the self of others. It is the whole, as well as a part of it, in one. Together. Prioritizing none.
Peace is authenticity and encourages one's inner capacity for and of difference and elegance and grace and central humanness. It does not judge or ridicule. It does not compete. It does not rush. It has no hierarchy.
Peace is easy to understand once one realizes that it is a state of being, not a goal to reach. It can happen now or later, regardless of what you're doing. And regardless of where or who you've been. Or where you think you're going.
Peace is gentle and strong at the same time. It's a still lake after a storm. The smell of a happy childhood memory. A safe and sturdy hug from a loved one. And a steady gust of wind from the sea.
Peace eases the mind, eases the soul, and produces steady breath, which others can breathe in, too. Or is it the other way around, cylindrical? Still, peace is always about the stillness, the respite, of the moment, anew in gratitude.
Peace is health and healing and growing roots that can reach and move, in future days. Nourishment for the self, for others, for the earth. The real and metaphorical common ground we all stand upon.
Peace does not reassemble pieces of broken artifacts and people as they were, but lets them fall where they lay, and allows them to reassemble themselves in another way, another day.
Peace is here and now. If only we open our hearts, our eyes, our minds.
Did you complete this prompt? If so, share what you came up with in a comment or chat thread below so that we can chat about it.
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