Field prompts
Small prompts, to slip in.
Six prompts, one to a slip. Choose a day and a window, then slip a prompt into it. Nothing here is a timetable: a window only says what kind of time it is.
Why an open window is a prompt too
A retreat day fills itself easily. An open window is written into the book on purpose, so the gap is planned as carefully as the reading or the sketch: drawn as an empty circle, never as a missing one.
Six slips
Leave this time open
Write nothing in this window. If you remember it later, note only what you did not do.
In the book: Day 1 · Afternoon, Day 2 · Afternoon, Day 3 · Afternoon
A few pages
Read until one sentence stops you. Copy it here, then close the book.
In the book: Day 1 · Morning, Day 2 · Morning, Day 3 · Morning
Observe from a quiet spot
Sit in one place facing the horizon. Note three things that change while you watch.
In the book: Day 1 · Evening, Day 2 · Evening, Day 3 · Evening
A small sketch
Draw one thing twice: once quickly, once slowly. Keep both.
Not in the book yet.
A note to keep
One line, written without stopping. Edit nothing until tomorrow.
Not in the book yet.
Time at the table
Bring one question to the table and listen to every answer before giving yours.
Not in the book yet.