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Prompt #140: Finding Beauty

Prompt #140: Finding Beauty

We need beauty now more than ever: a writing exercise

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Suzanne Roberts
Apr 04, 2025
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Prompt #140: Finding Beauty
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Hi Friends,

Sometimes I question the design of the universe—say, when someone dear to me has died—but then I go out into the world, and I realize that we cannot pull the threads we dislike from the universe, or the whole thing might unravel. I’ve been recuperating from knee surgery (knees that give out in midlife also seem like a bad design) and I’m not …

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