• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Sarah Walker Caron

  • Home
  • The Blog
  • My Books
  • My Clips
  • About Me
    • Awards
    • Skills
  • Contact

Outside My Window

October 29, 2020 by Sarah Walker Caron Leave a Comment

  • 0
  • 1
1shares

Gaze outside. What do you see? Here’s what I see outside my window. This is a short essay based on a writing prompt. Writing prompts are great for spurring inspiration.

Golden leaves hang from trees and blanket the ground in this photo. A brick red shed is visible, as is the window pane of the window being looked through.

Outside my window, the golden leaves are falling, blanketing the grass. The rays of sun light are streaming through the branches where so many more leaves still wait to fall. This is the ritual of autumn, as nature shuts down for winter and goes dormant.

But as nature quiets, the roar of challenge and change rages around us, a country in upheaval. We’re days from the election, days from a reckoning with who this nation wants to be. And it seems, no matter the results, the country won’t go dormant. Will we find peace and balance again?

The brick red shed sits surrounded by golden leaves. They blanket the ground in front of it and hang from the branches above it. It’s resolute, always there, always present. It won’t go dormant; it doesn’t live. Not will it roar with the challenge and change of the world around it. It just is. 

But we are not — unless we choose to be. Do we want to be seasonal like the trees, shining bright before going dormant when the weather is unfavorable? Do we want to be like the shed, resolute and unwavering? Or are we something else … living, breathing, feeling, experiencing human beings who cannot shape our world if we don’t remain active in it?

What is it that you want to be?

  • 0
  • 1
1shares

Filed Under: The Blog, Writing Prompt Essays

Previous Post: « The Pandemic Got in the Way of My Writing. Here’s What I Did About It.

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recently

  • Outside My Window
  • The Pandemic Got in the Way of My Writing. Here’s What I Did About It.
  • Rejected Essays: Why I Am Not Making Dinner Tonight
  • 12 Fall-Inspired Writing Prompts
  • Want to Be a Writer? Make Sure You Do These Things

Archives

Copyright © 2021 Sarah Walker Caron on the Foodie Pro Theme