Driving

Posted on September 25, 2003 in Book of Days Driving

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: Write about a simple pleasure.

The mechanism itself is complex and would give me a migraine if I attempted to know every petroleum-pushed explosion and whirl within the engine block. The act, however, is simple, and I can do it sitting down. The greatest pleasure is to be going up a steep hill, to feel my torso pressing into the seat back, to know for a few moments a world that isn’t apparently flat, a world tipped at an angle where nothing has to be banal and everything must reason itself into a new arrangement.

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pate? First either get yourself a copy of A Writer’s Book of Days by Judy Reeves or read these guidelines. Then either check in to see what the prompt for the day is or read along in the book.

Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: Night is falling. You’re not at home.