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When it came time to write, I combined a few of the animals. Coyote and owl became a “coyowl” and deer and wolf became “the deer wolf.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After two playful snippets about these fantasmagorical <\/a>animals, I wrote about a childhood experience of a dozen of us kids packed into Leonard Davenport’s Volvo to go “moose hunting” (with our eyes; no guns involved) in Fundy Park in New Brunswick, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I only realized now that the piece about the coyowl appears on the journal page with a Jack London quotation. Somehow this seems quite fitting. Here’s my whimsical exploration of the coyowl:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The coyowl can fly from any part of the unvierse down <\/p> to just outside your bedroom window <\/p> where he alights <\/p> and who-howls <\/p> and howl-hoots <\/p> into your dreams<\/p> stalking<\/p> stealing its prey right out of your mind and<\/p> flying away<\/p> with one of your burdens.<\/p> You awaken lighter<\/p> free<\/p> and wonder what he was<\/p> who scared you,<\/p> took from you,<\/p> liberated you.<\/p> <\/p> a creature of the night?<\/p> predator?<\/p> so strange and yet <\/p> familiar<\/p> in an unfamiliar way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Consider today’s prompts an invitation to leave realism behind. Tap into your magic. What did Day 5’s prompt generate for you? Share an excerpt, insight, question or image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you want some other worldly inspiration, here are some coyotes howling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wondering where the prompt is? You’ll find it in The Joy of Writing Journal: Spark Your Creativity in 8 Minutes a Day<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s list-making prompted a list of a few of my favorite animals, as well as some animals that intimidate me, like the coyotes I hear baying outside my window on cold winter nights. When it came time to write, I combined a few of the animals. Coyote and owl became a “coyowl” and deer and… Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,8885],"tags":[8898,148,8910,8899,8901,8896,8900,8895],"class_list":{"0":"post-18631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creativity","8":"category-journaling","9":"tag-coyote","10":"tag-creativity-2","11":"tag-joy-of-writing","12":"tag-nature-inspiration","13":"tag-owl","14":"tag-spark-joy","15":"tag-spirit-animals","16":"tag-the-joy-of-writing-journal","17":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278761,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions\/278761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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