1. Today’s Prompt Bodies --
Writing is often an abstract exercise and involves being stuck in one's head much of the time. Our bodies, however, are a major part of us, and our senses contribute to our ideas. Our physical characteristics also shape us as people, consciously or unconsciously. A person who is 5' 2" may have a different world perspective than someone who is 6' 2."Write down some ways your physical traits, or your character's, shape personality. Then create a character-building scene or stanza in a short-story, essay, or poem.

2. Today’s Reading… "Jesus Meets the Women" by Joseph Bathanti --
They bump into Him shopping in Bloomfield.  It's how many years? He's skin and bone.  The hair. The beard. Some kind of radical.  But still He shows respect, kisses each one,  inquires about their health, tells them to pray,  ask anything in His name and it's theirs.  They laugh. He's probably on drugs, they say.  His poor widowed mother. Thirty-three years  old, a grown man, and still can't settle down.  The little bit He makes He gives away,  while poor Mary sits in one room downtown,  practically on welfare, day after day.  They don't mention the thorns or bloody cross.  He's not a bad kid, just a little lost.

3. Today’s Prompt!
From an outsider's perspective, especially given the human tendency to judge and compare, a person's life may seem disreputable when it really isn't. Whether we mean to or not, we make snap judgments every day. An object at a yard sale might look useless when it's actually a priceless artifact. The unassuming woman boarding the bus could be a globetrotting chess grandmaster. We miss so much when we don't take time to stop and look a little closer with an open mind. Write a poem or scene describing someone or something with a deceptive appearance.