The Perfect Now
on Sheila Ash (India), 16/Mar/2015 07:42, 34 days ago
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For today’s trigger, our Creative Writing Tutor brought in a small stone he’d found on a beach years ago. It is about 1.25-1.5 in in diameter and unusually for natural materials, almost perfectly round. We spent a few minutes hypothesising whether it was natural or man made, whether it had been fashionedby nature or man, whether it was a fossil or not, whether there was something inside it or whether it was solid stone. Here’s what I wrote. Would I have the patience to waituntil my final dayto crack the stoneto open the boxand see what had been left inside? Orwould I, like a child,fiddle with it,caress it, smell it, lick it,sit on my hands and fidget,turning my head this way and that,crawl beneath the table it lies on,hide it in a cupboard,in a vain attemptto banish it from my mind? No chocolate to be left on the plate.No stone to be left unturned.No adventure to be left unexperienced.No future to be left untransformedinto a nowto be lived to the full. © Sheila Ash 16th March 2015ashramblings