The purpose of the searching questions are to reflect on who you are, what you’ve done in the past, and where are you hoped to go in the future. Some people though will benefit from asking searching questions about themselves before they start to write. So, you could just go ahead, grab a pen, and scawl out six words. There is no limit to what you can write as six word memoir, after all this is your own, personal story, and the only person who knows whether it is true or not easier. They can be a wonderful method of expression and creativity in a micro-fiction. Six Word Memoirs is one of the most common forms of Six Word Wonder. Writing a six word memoir on your tombstone is optional. They are a tiny, personal summary of the person you are, inside or out. Six Word memoirs are tiny personal autobiographies, written in only six words. ![]() ***We'd love to hear your six-word memoirs, too! Drop them in a comment below or shoot us an email, and if we get enough responses, we'll share them in January.Have you ever tried to sum up your life in six words? All your experiences, all your dreams, and everything you’ve learnt packaged into a few tiny words? Welcome to six word memoirs? **When you are the person responsible for updating the website, you get to put two six-word memoirs in the content. ![]() *With thanks to Phil Li of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation for sharing the concept of the six-word memoir in a peer forum, which inspired this approach. Wishing you peace, moments of joy, and a chance to pause in this unusual holiday season, and good health in the year to come. We’re honored to be working in community with so many of you, and while the year ahead will be full of many challenges we can’t even quite predict yet - we look forward to facing them with you. ![]() So thank you: for sticking with it, for doing the work, for being engaged, for showing up, for sharing your stories with us, for your dedication and your passion and your commitment. ![]() We have said before that as funders, we are unable to work towards our own mission without the very real, very hard work of all of you: the people working day in and day out to meet our community’s (growing) needs, dedicated not just to addressing the symptoms of the many inequitable systems in which we all operate, but to changing them for the better. (Submitted by Alex on behalf of all dogs everywhere, we think.) Methinks I’ve outgrown being an introvert. Rather than using more words to try to express everything this year has meant, both individually and as a collective, we’ve taken inspiration from this New York Times op-ed* and instead offer you just six words each to summarize our experiences of 2020: “Have a happy holiday season” feels insufficient “thanks for fighting through a global pandemic to serve the community while also engaging in a continued racial reckoning” feels closer to sufficient, but a blog post also doesn’t seem like quite the right vehicle to deliver that message. After a year like none other, it’s hard to know quite what to say. To be honest, we’ve started this year-end wrap-up more than once, and every time, made it no further than a blinking cursor at the top of a blank page.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |