Prompt: Pathways

Pathways.

The route from one space to another can be fraught or smooth, chaotic or the easiest thing we’ve ever done...or somewhere in between. 

Paths can be physical, figurative, emotional, spiritual. And your path will not be the same as others, even if you’re walking the same route. You see things differently, fragrances to one may be stenches to another, obstacles may be challenging to one or an opportunity to leap and dance like a child to another. Sometimes it’s down to perspective.

For this prompt, consider the paths you have travelled along in your life, perhaps you are in the middle of one right now; perhaps you walk or travel along a path every day on your way from one point to another. Take a step back and slow down your movement (whether this be physical movement or otherwise). What is on this path that you have never noticed before? What happens if you change the route slightly, or view it from another angle? Engage each sense, heighten them, and then look again. Is there a beginning and an end or is it circular? If the latter, what comes from repetition and pattern?

There are so many directions you could take with this one.

Happy writing!

Helen x

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Quote: “Of all of the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” (John Muir)

First thoughts:

• Intersecting/interweaving paths

• Pathways boundaries/liminal spaces

• Beginning, middle and end or circular? Winding or straight?

• Natural/human-made paths

• Path from human-made world to natural world: describe this transition