1. Today’s Prompt! Sad Songs Say So Much Think of a song that you would consider a lifelong favorite, even if your love for it now is attributed more to a strong sense of nostalgia than to your current musical tastes. Does hearing the song unexpectedly on the car radio or in a restaurant suddenly transport you to a different time or instantly change your mood? Write a personal essay about the memories you have associated with the song, and how the lyrics might have resonated with a certain significance in your past. How has your understanding and appreciation of the song evolved?song

2. Elizabeth Gilbert Ted Talk Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating

3. Today’s Agenda! Work on typing up a draft of some non-fiction for workshop day. We will have a workshop day on Friday! You need to show up prepared. It’s a quiz grade. Four copies of your piece to workshop in your groups. If you show up unprepared, that means without four type written copies of your work, it’s a 50%. No exceptions this six weeks. If you are stuck, think about this: “…and if you're wondering what your home is, here's a hint: Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, it might be family, it might be invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgis, I don't know, your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.” - Elizabeth Gilbert