Week 1 Journal + Prompts with ATS

Let’s try to do at least 5 fun and creative journal pages each week. And yes, some of what I will share will lean to poetry because it is National Poetry Month but all of them lean toward taking 15 tiny minutes to yourself a day –that's really only a little bit more than an hour.
For you. I am just as guilty as everyone about becoming a TV junkie, a book reader or even a TikTok doom scroller especially when I'm stressed and anxious which is lately often. And sometimes for no good reason it feels like.  But we can pull ourselves out of this. We can be creative.

Each Sunday, I will leave you with realistic prompts and ideas that you can do to get your mind turning and your creative juices pumping— to inspire you! I think that if you go look in a mirror today and you say I deserve at least 75 minutes alone with a pen and paper and my thoughts and my beautiful bustling brain I deserve this now if you tell yourself that you might just listen to yourself. So yes, every Sunday except for week 1(because I had no computer cord last night) I'll set you up for creative success and start a thread where we can talk to each other and be inspired and maybe share some things with each other.
I used to do a Sunday club of sorts and it was really energizing to work together on prompts and to share what comes out of everyone's mind. It's so amazing that you can insert a prompt into five different people's mind and the output is magnificently different and beautiful and mind-blowing. I do encourage you to share your work. I encourage you to be brave and bold. Hell, be spicy. We are only alive once.

WEEK 1:

If you have some really pretty journal that's just been sitting around because you're saving it for something special,  I want you to repeat after me today is special today is special.

You can also just use an old notebook for this project it doesn't really matter. What does matter though is let's not save things for days that we don't know about that includes our words too!

I loved to put a sticker on my journal and to write WILD ASS THINGS in there.

1. Write a list of everything that is causing you worry right now. List it all out. Now put on a favorite song and burn that shit over your kitchen sink. Say some words that sound like white hot spells. Imagine you will be free from worry while you write this month. Say that out loud too.

2. Write for 10 mins about how strange it is that sharks have been on the earth before TREES.   

3. Find a text on your phone that you saved. Write a response to that text. Write it two ways:
   a. You are in love with this person and can’t wait to see them and climb into their bed.
   b. you hate them and want them to know how they messed something up for you. (5 lines at least for both)

4. Draw a picture of what fear looks like and write a caption.

5. Make a list of these things:

Top ten ways you like to be touched
All of the times you have cried in last month and why
Top 5 turn Ons/ Top 5 turn Offs
Everything you know about Astral Projecting
Where is your heart
All of the people you wish you had kissed
What do you not believe in anymore

We will do something with that list next week.

Let love fall down on you and this journal. That is my hope. I will start a thread for us to share. I will also be doing a ZOOM ONLY free for paid subs at end of month. Deets soon. In town folks, I am doing a fun Poetry Pub Crawl! Join me!  

Random stuff:

someone added me to the #mindfulness channel on my corporate slack and it is this slackbot that annoys me it sends me messages to take a break or look for the good in people it says “welcome to the present” shit like that i have left the channel 3 times but someone keeps adding me back and gives me a nervous feeling that they think i need this i probably do but the rage that boils up inside of me when i see take (WATCH EMOJI) to take a breath DM is bountiful but everything is fine and I will do tapping tonight tap tap tap

other stuff:

My oldest bb turned 19. Finnian Rhys. I love you. I wrote this for him when he was maybe…7 or so…

Say you love me. And you do as you throw your little hands around my neck and cling to me. We spin and fall to the bed. I tell you stories with my mouth close to your ear and you laugh like vibration, like a honeybee. Someday you'll wrestle on a bed with someone else and you'll forget this true mad love you had for me. You'll find other places to hide your sweetness away. A million rushes of blood to your head. Some people will show you the other side of life. The empire state building tall of want. But for now, I'm everything that makes the world go round. I'm your girl. I'm the one who teaches you to love. My crown glows. My heart is a dragster. Hold on.

Last stuffs:

I am sending spring postcards. Last September we did spell onee. This round is personalized ones. You send me 6 bucks to my venmo. @amytsharp & you add yr addy and a word or phrase you want and I will try and write you something the universe says I need to give to you. Just you. xo

ILYSM.

Talk soon.

Amy