SPLINTERS FOR FEBRUARY 2022

February 5 is Rosa Parks Day. Do you have memories of the Civil Rights Movement of her time? Perhaps you have thought about the same subject in current conditions in the US?
1. Write a poem or memoir essay to express these thoughts.
2. Write a tribute to champion(s) of human/civil rights.
February 7 is Send a Card to a Friend Day. Have you lost touch with a friend?
1. Write a message to the friend or the message you wish the friend would send to you.
2. Are friendship cards obsolete? What is your opinion?
February 14 is Valentine’s Day. Thoughts of love and friendship abound.
1. Remembered love, the immediacy of first love, the enduring love. All can be captured in a poem. Choose one and create your poem.
2. Or write a memory from childhood about homemade or store-bought Valentine cards, the candies you shared with a friend, or other related memory.
This month has a day that honors the telling of Fairy Tales.
1. Do you have a favorite? Why? Or, one you hate? Why?
2. Do you have a fairy tale of your own you would like to share?
3. Rewrite a well-known fairy tale or create a spin-off tale.