Whether chipmunks make you think of this:
this:
this:
or even this:
they make you think of something. Even if it's as silly as this:
Today the writing exercise is to write a piece that deals with chipmunks. Whether you use their diet of seeds nuts, fruits, fungi (the image of Remi foraging for mushrooms springs to mind as a possible jumping off point from the movie Ratatouille) or their high metabolism, a metaphor about their tunneling or a lyric description of their fur pattern. Whatever you'd like.
Alternate writing exercise: You are a Buddhist monk just minding his own business eating a bag of chips when a gang approaches you and... (go!)