WRITING PROMPT
Sing for your Supper
playing karaoke with the truth
Songs? I’ve had a few …
Do you sing in the shower? No? On car journeys or just in traffic jams? In stadiums in front of 3 billion people? To your baby? At worship? For your supper? Do you remember a time when singing was normal for you, singing and clapping and stamping your feet?
Love songs, folk songs, protest songs, primal screams …sometimes they soothe us, sometimes they pick us up and shake us. Let a song or singing or putting your hands over your ears just not to have to listen anymore be the prompt for your story. Your voice or somebody else’s — it’s time to sing the truth.
Close your eyes and listen. Use a song, or the memory of one being sung, to guide you to a story that wants to be told.
#Sing
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