Ten-Finger Exercises

Seven minute writing

Resolutions are intentions people have, maybe even ideas that attract them; but to put them into practice, they make a resolution about them. It is a step toward actualization, but not always. Often the making of a resolution is the only step that happens. It's as if the resolve was the goal, rather than pointing toward the goal.

Nothing will truly be resolved if it is not thought of in some way, but not necessarily first. It's possible to meander into some art, some task, some activity that one recognizes, midstream, as being worthwhile and will ultimately finish it.

The word resolve makes me think of a chord. An unresolved chord sounds so strange, like the fall of the first shoe without the other, or a taste without a swallow. The making of a traditional resolution ought to feel the same way, like a drum major lifting his left knee high and then, instead of beginning the

...I have no idea what happened to the rest of my page. No wonder it confused everybody. It was a timed writing, but it did have an ending. The topic was from a prompt from http://www.cafewriting.com/2008/01/01/january-project/