Weekly Challenges

If you could go back in time and tell your younger self anything, what would it be? 

Get down low and look up – way up at tall buildings, towering trees, an expansive sky. Take photos! 

How do you imagine yourself at age 30? Can you imagine it? What has changed? And what has stayed the same?

Take a photograph of a distinctive pattern. It could be in fabric, architecture, nature, anywhere. Patterns are all around you.

If you could jump into the image of a postcard, what postcard would you choose and why?

Skogsbading is a Norwegian term that means “forest bathing.” Want to try it?

If you could make a new constellation, what would it look like? What types of stars would be in it? What would it represent? Using your preferred medium, create an image of your dream constellation.

Choose a word that sounds like its meaning, such as buzz, purr, twinkle. Write the word in the center of a piece of paper and draw or sketch around it whatever related objects or ideas come to mind. 

Tiny creatures see the world much differently than we do. Write from the perspective of a creature that lives life close to the ground, always looking up to avoid confrontations with the bigger creatures (i.e. humans). 

Capture joy in any way that you experience and see it. Use your preferred medium for this prompt, but if you are using a camera, explore how photography can reveal things about the world and what people experience.

Try your hand at tanka, a Japanese form of poetry similar to haiku but longer. Like a haiku, a tanka focuses on specific moments and imagery, but it also adds a twist or change in the last two lines.

This time of year, change is all around us. We see it in the trees and we feel it in the air. In prose or poetry, write about change, whether it be in nature, yourself, or otherwise.