Tuesday, March 04, 2008

648. Six words

Without ideas about what to write tonight, I went to Bloglines for some inspiration and discovered this post about writing your memoir in six words. The idea originated with an NPR story about an online magazine article that posed the same question to celebrities (Stephen Colbert: Well, I thought it was funny) as well as the not-so-famous (Love me or leave me alone, scrawled on a hand dryer in a public bathroom). Here are some others. I though for a few minutes and came up with this for myself:

She made art and always wondered.

It's a good challenge; you end up sort of free-associating about what's at the tip of your mind, yet don't have a enough words at your disposal to make any conclusions. Life is like that sometimes.

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