Continuing on my work with the creative genius program, I wanted to take a second to work on another journaling prompt. I am actually enjoying these a lot, and it’s good to take a break from the cleaning I’ve been doing. I’m going to answer two in one post though because I’m running out of week. 
Early Bird or Night Owl?
Hoot hoot! Does that answer the question? Just kidding. Seriously though, I am very much a night owl if I have a choice. I like the world quiet, and dark. This isn’t meant as a cop-out, but this poem honestly does describe how I feel about the darkness and the nighttime.
You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them!-
powers and people-
and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.
I have faith in nights.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Cities or the Country
I actually grew up in a somewhat rural part of western South Dakota. At the time, I hated it. I had no close friends nearby, and school took half an hour to get to. It was far more fun for my mom I think, and to this day she still lives there. As for me, I live in the suburbs near Kansas City. So, which do I like better? Eh, neither really? Both? It’s weird and it really does depend on the day. Sometimes, I want to see neon and tons of people. Sometimes? I just want to be left alone. I didn’t come to the woods to live deliberately when I was a kid, but I wouldn’t mind it from time to time now that I’m an adult. Go figure.
