Essay project for World Diabetes Day
The email
was from one of my sisters. Not one of my two biological sisters, but from one
of my thousands of genetic sisters. The subject line was: Essay Challenge!
As I love
to write and love a challenge, I dropped everything important I was doing (it
was probably surfing eBay or Etsy) and opened the email. It read: Take the
diabetes 6-word essay challenge!
Now. Wait.
A. Second.
A six-word
essay? That’s ridiculous. Six words isn’t even a haiku. I can’t even clear my
voice in six words. So naturally I wrote her and told her exactly that.
Apparently,
I’m a weenie. And a coward. And afraid to try something new. Oh, just for good
measure she questioned whether or not my writing talents were up to the task.
Yes, she
knew all the right buttons to press. Her six-word essay? Diabetes is genetic just like me!
(Mind you, this particular sister is a biologist.)
So
sufficiently goaded, I worked on it for a bit, and I confess, it was actually
kind of fun to try to say more with less. Here’s mine:
Diabetes is darkness morphing to light.
Now it’s
your turn. Take the challenge. Post your six-word diabetes “essay” in comments.
And check out other six-word essays over at NPR, who are
apparently the fiends responsible for this bit of silliness (the six-word
essay, not necessarily the diabetes version.)
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