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Day 7. Celebrate

Jump straight to today's prompt here. If I could, I’d rock up with streamers and balloons and a marching band outside your window this morning, like a slightly annoying GIF. Because to me, nothing says celebration like a triumphant chorus outside your window at 6am....

Day 6. Contract with yourself

Jump straight to today's prompt here. At the end of each Immersion class, we take a moment to clarify how we want to be, or what we want to do in the week ahead. In the years that I lived in Scotland I spent a great deal of time hiking up mountains with my partner....

Day 5. Bring forth

Jump straight to today's prompt here. No one knows much about the writer or writers of the Gospel of Thomas. Discovered (or rediscovered) in Egypt in 1945, the text was written anywhere between 60 and 250AD and purports to record the sayings of Jesus. One of the...

Day 4. Find the gap

Jump straight to today's prompt here. When I was 18, I waitressed for a catering company, and spent most weekends pouring champagneat swanky parties. One party, overlooking Sydney harbour, was a glamorous event attended bybeautiful people of the kind I’d only ever...

Day 3. Allies and Enemies

Jump straight to today's prompt here. In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott tells a story of her own writerly jealousy during a period when a literary friend was doing really well. It was a particularly hard period for Lamott, and the acquaintance phoned frequently, saying...

Day 2. Find your power

Jump straight to today's prompt here. Imagine the force required to blast the universe into being; the power needed to grow a baby; the strength needed to create your own story. Most of us are better at noticing our own flaws than we are at noticing our strengths. Yet...