Prep + Mise en Place
Write a list of 30 things you love right now. (Here’s my example: PDF)
For your journal or commonplace:
Sit for ten minutes looking out a window. Write what you see. (Or, if you’d prefer, do a blind contour drawing of it.) (Here’s my example: PDF)
Main Course
Write about a place you know well but that you haven’t thought about in a while. Put yourself in the essay. Try to reveal something essential about yourself in your depiction of this place. Include at least two of the following: food, music, topography, something built in another century, a person native to this place. (Here’s my example: Somebody Take Me Home)
Dessert
Eat a meal outdoors. Eat slowly. Register all five senses.