Questions for the table
Where are we now?
Who are we now?
What if you just accept what is happening?
What does it mean to be tenacious , ambitious, to use your natural born skills?
How do you know if it matters?
Does it matter if what you make is good? (How would you know? Who would tell you? On what grounds would this judgement be made?)
What instinct shall you follow?
What are your priorities, and how are they expressed, through what means?
(Why do you write?) Why do you do what you do?
What do you hope for?
Are there things you want to learn?
Are you done here?
What are you carrying?
Are you well enough to continue?
What would it be about instead?
Where does it hurt? When? How?
What gives you relief?
xo, Carrie
PS This is one of my circle poems, but I will also use each question as a prompt for a future journal entry, to get beyond “what’s on your mind?” A few of the questions are yes/no, but even those can work as prompts, urging an explanation, depending on the tone you’re hearing the questioner speak in.
Can you imagine a dinner party where you’d go around the table asking everyone to respond to one of these questions? Which one would you choose to ask? (Today, I’d like to know, What are you carrying?)