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From Acorn to Great Oak

January 05, 2015 in writing prompts

I visualise for a moment that I am a small acorn. Myself and my writing project are like that acorn, pre-programmed with everything we need to grow into a magnificent oak. If I support and allow the process. I will cradle this expansive view of life; it flies in the face of those who would reduce me (and all of us) to what happened once upon a time when we were five.




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