{"id":2754,"date":"2015-02-18T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2016-01-23T21:01:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T04:01:48","slug":"2754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/2754\/","title":{"rendered":"My tribe.  Prompt #138"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s writing prompt is inspired from <a title=\"Your Mythic Journey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Your-Mythic-Journey-Finding-Storytelling\/dp\/0874775434\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424060821&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Your Mythic Journey<\/a> by <a title=\"Sam Keen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sam-Keen\/e\/B000APRXOG\/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Keen<\/a> and <a title=\"Anne Valley-Fox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Anne+Valley-Fox&amp;search-alias=books&amp;text=Anne+Valley-Fox&amp;sort=relevancerank\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Valley-Fox.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cavemen.1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4875 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cavemen.1.jpg\" alt=\"Cavemen.1\" width=\"250\" height=\"238\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>&#8220;Pre-modern people didn&#8217;t think of themselves as individuals \u2014 they were members of a tribe as well as of a family. Ancient philosophers knew that human dignity begins with &#8216;We are a people, therefore I am.&#8217; Modern people are tribal too but we call our tribes by different names \u2014 churches, corporations, states, nations. Each of us was nurtured within and shaped by several corporate bodies, voluntary organizations and professional corporations that molded our values and behavior \u2014 schools, athletic teams businesses, clubs, temples, and local, national, and international governments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong> I am from . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note from Marlene: You can write from your personal experience, or write from your fiction character&#8217;s point of view. You may have written on this prompt previously. It&#8217;s a good one that can be used repeatedly, new things may come up, or clarification about an event may surprise you.\u00a0 Remember: Just write, no editing as you write, no judging, no critiquing. 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