a List

1. I won the award for best speller in 4th grade, beating out Jack Harvey (aka Merritt Harvey). Does that inspire me to do better? No, I’ve learned that there are people for whom spelling comes naturally or for whom it is an obsession — and I am neither.
2. The messiest room in my house, which I will change to the messiest SPACE in my LIFE is my desk. At work and at home, my desk is messy beyond messy — and yet it is MY space which I covet and love.
3. The contrast between these things — of being a good speller and having an incredibly mess desk — is that I am slowly figuring out what is REALLY important.
4. What inspires me to do better — daily reading, daily contemplating, daily trying to look beyond me to the world.

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This is my response to a bunch of prompts, namely

• You won an award at some point in your life. What was it for?
• Write a blog post inspired by the messiest room in the house.
• The Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “contrast.” 
• Write a post in exactly seven (7) sentences.