Dream First: Pop Touchstones

Responding to Life – Step 1

Gather songs or other media that represent changes in your life.

If your life were a movie, what would the soundtrack be? Choose at least three songs or other pop-cultural artifacts that represent different turning points. You may not care about popular culture, but media hits are often ubiquitous, the background for whatever personal changes you’re going through.

Instead of songs, feel free to choose books or movies, a celebrity, a TV series or podcast, TikTok influencers, a video game, fashion fads – and so on.

Respond to the prompt about pop touchstones below in your Process Notebook.

Suggested Time for Touchstones: 15 minutes

Suggested Time for Prompt: 5 minutes

Don’t overthink these media references. Take a few deep breaths or a short walk. Then select three or more things that come to you in the moment.

Process Notebook Prompt:

List three pop touchstones. How does each one reflect a change in your life?

Write freely about what you thought while coming up with these media items. Be specific rather than abstract or judgmental.