Childhood Beliefs: When the Moon Follows You

https://legawa.com/2026/06/27/childhood-beliefs-when-the-moon-follows-you/

New essay today.

Enthusiasm, cynics, snails, the Colosseum, tiny gods, boring people who are not actually boring, and the sacred duty of occasionally yelling “Looook at thaaaaaat.”

Also: the French are briefly attacked. Fairly.

https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/gimme-some-explosive-enthusiasm-or-dont/

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A #beautiful #sunset

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The Importance of Wonder in Storytelling

Author Sophie Chen Keller discusses the importance of wonder in storytelling by examining her own writing (and reading) path.
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https://www.writersdigest.com/the-importance-of-wonder-in-storytelling

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W3 Prompt #216: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Intro

Dear friends,

Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.

You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:

Part I

The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants read before participating in the prompt.

Part II

The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.

Part III

After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.

Simple enough, right?

Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!

I. The prompt poem:

‘On A Wet Afternoon’ by Nancy Richy

II. Nancy’s prompt: Epic wins and spectacular flops

This week, let’s play with 8 x 4 forms: four-line stanzas with eight syllables per line (such as a the Cielito, the Long Metre, the Monotetra, the Redondilla, etc.). One famous example is Joyce Kilmer’s Trees:

For inspiration, think about a moment in your life when something truly mattered. Perhaps it was a great success, a hard-earned accomplishment, or a memorable disaster that taught you something important. Maybe you organized a major event, won a competition, survived a family vacation gone wrong, or confidently attempted a home-improvement project that ended in chaos.

Write about an occasion when you soared, stumbled, or did a little of both.

Guidelines:

• Use one or more 4-line stanzas;
• Keep each line to 8 syllables;
• Maximum length: 20 lines;
• Humor, reflection, triumph, embarrassment, and self-deprecation are all welcome.

As always, have fun and make the memory come alive for your readers.

III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’ below

In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.

Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, June 22, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)

Last week’s W3 poem

This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Nancy, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which Artie wrote:

‘a runicible frolic’ by Artie Camenzind