SPLINTERS FOR DECEMBER 2021

SPLINTERS FOR DECEMBER 2021

  1. The subject of immigration has been a hot topic in recent days.
    1. Has this issue touched your life personally? How?
    2. If you were asked to speak or write on this issue, what would like to your words to be? What effect would you hope for?
  2. December 13 is World-Wide Candle Lighting Day. Does candlelight have special meaning to you? For what would/will you light a candle this December? Why?
  3. December is the end of the year, a time when we begin an inventory of the year almost gone.
    1. As you begin your summary, what stands out?
    2. What are your thoughts at this time?
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SPLINTERS FOR NOVEMBER 2021

  1. What time of day is your favorite? Why? Does your choice change depending on the season? Why?
  2. All of those who fought in WWI and nearly all who fought in WWII are gone. But the memories live on. What are your memories?
    1. A film? A book?
    2. Stories from or about a relative?
    3. A visit to a battleground, cemetery, memorial?
  3. Is there a special person who touched your life and just the right moment? What happened then? What do you remember most?
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SPLINTERS FOR NOVEMBER 2021

  1. What time of day is your favorite? Why? Does your choice change depending on the season? Why?
  2. All of those who fought in WWI and nearly all who fought in WWII are gone. But the memories live on. What are your memories?
    1. A film? A book?
    2. Stories from or about a relative?
    3. A visit to a battleground, cemetery, memorial?
  3. Is there a special person who touched your life and just the right moment? What happened then? What do you remember most?
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SPLINTERS FOR NOVEMBER 2021

  1. What time of day is your favorite? Why? Does your choice change depending on the season? Why?
  2. All of those who fought in WWI and nearly all who fought in WWII are gone. But the memories live on. What are your memories?
    1. A film? A book?
    2. Stories from or about a relative?
    3. A visit to a battleground, cemetery, memorial?
  3. Is there a special person who touched your life and just the right moment? What happened then? What do you remember most?
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SPLINTERS FOR NOVEMBER 2021

  1. What time of day is your favorite? Why? Does your choice change depending on the season? Why?
  2. All of those who fought in WWI and nearly all who fought in WWII are gone. But the memories live on. What are your memories?
    1. A film? A book?
    2. Stories from or about a relative?
    3. A visit to a battleground, cemetery, memorial?
  3. Is there a special person who touched your life and just the right moment? What happened then? What do you remember most?
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SPLINTERS FOR OCTOBER 2021

  1. How do you feel about October? Do look forward to it each year or wish you could skip it? Why?
  2. This is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Do you know a rescued dog? Tell the story.
  3. What are your memories of Halloween?
    1. As a child, what made this time special or scary for you?
    2. As an adult how has your feeling about this day changed? Why?
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SPLINTERS FOR OCTOBER 2021

  1. How do you feel about October? Do look forward to it each year or wish you could skip it? Why?
  2. This is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Do you know a rescued dog? Tell the story.
  3. What are your memories of Halloween?
    1. As a child, what made this time special or scary for you?
    2. As an adult how has your feeling about this day changed? Why?
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SPLINTERS FOR OCTOBER 2021

  1. How do you feel about October? Do look forward to it each year or wish you could skip it? Why?
  2. This is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Do you know a rescued dog? Tell the story.
  3. What are your memories of Halloween?
    1. As a child, what made this time special or scary for you?
    2. As an adult how has your feeling about this day changed? Why?
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SPLINTERS FOR OCTOBER 2021

  1. How do you feel about October? Do look forward to it each year or wish you could skip it? Why?
  2. This is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Do you know a rescued dog? Tell the story.
  3. What are your memories of Halloween?
    1. As a child, what made this time special or scary for you?
    2. As an adult how has your feeling about this day changed? Why?
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SPLINTERS FOR SEPTEMBER 2021

  1. What are your memories of the start of the school year?
    1. Write from the view of a child or adult, or combine the two.
    2. Did you also play truant like the poem from Robert Roxby? Share that experience and how it impacted (or not) your later life.
  2. Use a childhood game as the inspiration for your poem.
    1. Use the game as an allegory or metaphor or re-write the rules.
    2. For examples, see Margaret Roxby’s “How the Rope Turns Matters Much” or Kathleen Roxby’s “GAMES OF EITHER/OR”.
    3. Or simply tell your experience of game(s) you played as a child.
  3. When does Summer end? Is it a spirit or merely a season of the year? See Margaret Roxby’s “Summer Lives.”
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