A juicy year end writing prompt!

Hi to all! I hope your December has been going well so far. Today the sun is sparkling on fresh snow outside my window, bringing me a lot of joy!

I have been following Hannah Braime’s Advent Calendar of writing prompts again this year. I have been enjoying writing in response to her prompts about the year that has passed, and tomorrow we will begin to write about hopes and dreams for the year ahead. Today, at the midpoint of her writing invitations, she offered a really fascinating one:

“ Create a haiku that represents the last 12 months for you.”

Oh boy, I really wanted to do that, and a haiku arose very quickly! For me, it really summarized the year well. Although from December 1-12 I had written quite a few pages in my journal about 2022, the 3 lines of the haiku captured the essence of it the best.

I want to hasten to add that I didn’t end up following the formula for a haiku exactly, and yet the number of syllables in each line seemed to be just perfect for today.

This lovely experience had me want to write to you today to tell you of this haiku invitation. If you give it a try, I think you will be amazed at what arises!