For our first write at the Memorial Day Write Whole meeting, I offered the following three fragments as prompts:
We took twenty minutes for this exercise. Here’s what I wrote:
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Yesterday was Beltane, May Day, the celebration of summer, the ancient Celtic/Gaelic festival celebrating fertility, new life, transition.
All over the world, people came out to march and celebrate another meaning of May Day, international labor day: folks gathered to honor immigrant workers, to demand better working conditions, higher wages, real security.
And how did the powers-that-be in the USA honor and mark this day? They held up the body of a dead man.