Short and Sweet #10
by Annette Dammer

Take the Long Way Home

How often do you look out your window? The window of your car? Sure, we watch for the next red light, the next traffic jam - but what about the brilliant red of that light? Do we look at the panic on the faces of others - or try to figure out why they are smiling? What song are they singing? Why?

Want more to look at - try a new way home. Give yourself five extra minutes and take the long road home. Take a tour of an untravelled road. Drive slowly through your downtown - or patrol a pasture of cows...

If you're feeling brave, take a quick right turn. Lose yourself. What do you see? What do you find?

Then... pull over in a safe place. Take a few notes with the pen and notebook you keep in your car - just for moments like this!

If you are inspired to write about something else, go for that, too. The idea is - stretch your boundaries. Take a look around.

And write about it!

Then share it with others! We all need a road less travelled!

 Copyright 2003 Annette Dammer

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