Staying With the Breath

Writober 2025: Day One Breath>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦‍⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Breath OctPoWriMo Take a BreathContinue reading “Staying With the Breath”

Breaking Through My Crossroads Block

This year, 2025, at the end of August, is the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s hard for us survivors to believe it has already been that long because we are still affected by it every day. Any survivor of traumatic events knows what anniversaries can do. So please be tender with any K-storm survivorsContinue reading “Breaking Through My Crossroads Block”

The Depth of Yearning

It’s our last couple days of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. I really like the word yearning. It evokes longing and desire, but also has year in it and earning and is only one letter off from learning. I foundContinue reading “The Depth of Yearning”

Depth of the Unchanging One

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. Yesterday we dove into change and transformation, so when I read, “the human mind is capable of fathoming that unchanging one behind the many, and having fathomed it, theContinue reading “Depth of the Unchanging One”

Transformation

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. Depth can lead to transformation. Transformation is change: a. change in composition or structureb. change in outward form or appearance c. change in character or condition Looking at ourContinue reading “Transformation”

Deep Questions

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. To learn anything, we need to ask questions. To reach a depth of understanding we need to ask a lotContinue reading “Deep Questions”

Depth Perception

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Stereopsis Binocular depth perception is also called stereopsis. Stereopsis is the process in which we perceive depth due to theContinue reading “Depth Perception”

Depth Through Mindfulness

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. “Mindfulness is the awareness that arises from paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.” ~ Jon Kabat-ZinnContinue reading “Depth Through Mindfulness”

Light Depth

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Light Depth is is how far light penetrates in water, specifically the ocean. According to the National Oceanic and AtmosphericContinue reading “Light Depth”

Full Circle

Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z today. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Full Circle 1.Here I am again: Again I’ve come full circle.The flowers come too soon with so much left to dostalled upside down in the loop-de-loop ofContinue reading “Full Circle”