Author: Reena Saxena

Taking up Reena’s Exploration Challenge#78
by Reena Saxenatowritebasedonquote below. This is my fictional contribution. Thanks for the mind prompt Reena.

“That proves you are unusual,” returned the Scarecrow; “and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
―L. Frank Baum,The Land of Oz

She gave a final push and was rewarded as the baby flew from her womb. His tiny hands and arms, flapping like a young bird in flight, nestled in the doctors hands. She looked at his…

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Today, we have a paragraph as a prompt. Do whatever you canwith it. Reflect on it, twist it, break it into pieces and use a phrase or justwrite if you agree/disagree or whatever you think about it. As usual, there areno restrictions on length or format. Suit yourself.

PROMPT

“That proves you are unusual,” returned the Scarecrow; “and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.” 
― L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz

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Write a post on your blog, and link it up with here with apingback, or copy-pasting the blog link in Comments.

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Are you the unusual?

Most people, myself included don’t want to be ordinary. They want to be thought special by…

PROMPT

“That proves you are unusual,” returned the Scarecrow; “and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.” 
― L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz

“They make us look good you know.”

“Who do?”

“The plain, the ordinary, the man and woman in the street. Without them, we’d just be weird. But because of them, we stand out, the eccentric beings who add a layer to life most only ever dream about or prefer to deny.”

We stopped at that comment to let it soak in and decide if we thought it reasonable or not. We looked at one another judging each other as being the unusual or just another leaf on the tree.

We didn’t think of ourselves as ‘common folk’, and we…

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Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge. Reena says:

Today, we have a paragraph as a prompt. Do whatever you can with it. Reflect on it, twist it, break it into pieces and use a phrase or just write if you agree/disagree or whatever you think about it. As usual, there are no restrictions on length or format. Suit yourself.

PROMPT

“That proves you are unusual,” returned the Scarecrow; “and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz

FOR THE NEW ENTRANTS

Write a post on your blog, and link it up with here with a pingback, or copy-pasting the blog link in Comments.

The first thing I notice is that the Scarecrow…