I suppose to make this daily double creative responsibility a little bit easier, I’ll try to combine my current Inktober prompt and my weekly blog posts. Today’s prompt was “Path.” My ink interpretation of this prompt was a bit of a cutesy Halloween take, with a little ghost taking a small break while floating along a forest path.
This was a bit of an easy prompt to complete. We all know what a path is, and the metaphor of traveling down the path of life is one that is facile and yet a foundational one. Our life begins and it ends, simple as that.
Of course, the path from beginning to end is never simple, and it is totally and utterly unique to each person who takes it, even if you are an identical twin. If I stop to think a little bit about my own life path, I can certainly say that it has been a slightly wandering and somewhat rootless one. My parents were travelers. My father joined the US Marine Corps when he was 18 and never looked back. He married a Filipina woman when he was stationed in the Philippines, and she left her entire family and support system to travel across the world to be with him.