Discernment

~ Susan St.Pierre ~ 2 Comments
Daily writing prompt
What’s a conspiracy theory you actually find believable?
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Anything labeled a “conspiracy theory” is merely a “theory”.
Many of human theories can seem zany and unfounded but once labeled “conspiracy theories” are purposely meant to be ignored. Thoughts are as fluid as feelings. We usually are able to filter them into reasonable or not, but they still exist.
IMHO… nearly all human interactions have an element of conspiracy. Most people are playing roles and spend time presenting images of themselves that are not actually “real”. Our thoughts conspire constantly which is just another description of our ability to “imagine”. To imagine is a gift.
I can entertain anyone’s theory and then choose to investigate or dismiss it with my own “reasoning filter”. I enjoy them all and don’t take preliminary derogatory labels seriously because I make the ultimate decision about what to believe. That’s called discernment. 😉

Simply Six-Minutes 8/18/26 ~ Songs in the Night

~ Susan St.Pierre ~ 8 Comments

Christine asks us to create a story in only 6-minutes using the image below as a prompt:

Charlotte’s family (on her mother’s side) carried many “word of mouth” legends.
Today, she sat crossed-legged before her grandmother listening to a tale about her great-great grandmother whose name had been given to her.
The six-year-old leaned forward listening about the little girl “who heard the voices of angels”. Her great-great grandmother had once been told to care for her younger siblings as she would care for herself, on a midnight stroll that she was compelled to take. A song coming from a well had delivered that message.
Later on, she was left an orphan and heeded that song by vigilantly and courageously watching over her younger siblings without hesitation.
Goosebumps rose on Charlotte’s flesh. She would need to listen harder to those muffled “songs” that had lately been waking her at night.

Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 08/18/2026 – Stine Writing

d’Verse Prosery 8/17/26 A Mother’s Glow

~ Susan St.Pierre ~ 23 Comments

The Line

I’ve chosen the following line from “King of the River” for you to use in your prose:

. . . and the iridescent image swims
through a mirror that flows.” Stanley Kunitz (The Atlantic, 1970)

Minnie’s heart nearly burst when she had finally realized her greatest wish!

She’d almost given up on any fulfillment of her “feminine purpose” when she was miraculously graced with the most precious twin sons anyone had ever seen.

Her barren longing had been agonizing. The other mothers had uniformly ‘taken on’ pity-filled countenances when Minnie distantly admired their babes.
While the cycle of life along the river had most cruelly kept ‘passing her by’, Minnie practiced never daring to even look at her own reflection knowing that her growing bitterness must ‘look’ as ugly as it felt.

But by chance today, Minnie glances at herself while tending her little ‘blessings” by a lazy pool and the iridescent image swims. Through the mirror that flows, Minnie finds that the joy of motherhood emits a light of its own and looks mighty beautiful on river otters.

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Prosery—Luminous Accountings | dVerse

MLMM Monday Wordle 8/17/26 Jeremiah’s Resolve

~ Susan St.Pierre ~ 7 Comments

Your words today are:

dashing, morning, bed, forecast, always, sighed, give, neck, head, warmth, laid, part.

The morning forecast had warned his community about an imminent hurricane.

Jeremiah turned his head toward the bedroom window and sighed. A year before, he would have been dashing about anchoring everything down but now laid helpless and useless while others did. He had nothing to give anymore.
His neck strained against shocks of pain just to get a better look at the darkening clouds on the horizon.
Was this the “part” he would always play from now on since ‘the accident’?

A sudden warmth ran through him as he adamantly resolved that NOTHING would keep him from fully recovering no matter what the doctor said!


MLMM Monday Wordle #490 | pensitivity101

Share Your World 8/17/26 My American Identity

~ Susan St.Pierre ~ 5 Comments

Here are this week’s questions:

What was your favourite TV show as a kid?

For a long time, I looked forward to watching “My Friend Flicka”. A story about a boy and his best friend horse, Flicka.
(Just as a footnote: The fact that the story portrayed a “boy” in the starring role never once interfered with my ability to identify with, and embrace, that character. Certainly, the emphasis on characters “looking like” those who are watching in order to have “meaning”, was an upside/down fruity academic creation later on.]

Do you have a favourite ‘tipple’? (alcoholic drink, or something when you are out for a meal etc)

I enjoy a whiskey and Coke now and then.

Is there a movie you can watch again and again and still enjoy?

There are several but I’d say “Tombstone” never gets old.

Did you have a favourite toy as a child? Or perhaps one you wanted and never got?

I carried my “pop gun” everywhere for a long time.

Gratitude: I am EVER grateful for growing up during a time that still embraced rugged American Individualism opposed to the current tribal victimhood.
[Our culture is now in the ideological fight of its life. 😢🙏]

Share Your World 17th August 2026 | pensitivity101