Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose

8/24/2016

Spent a lot of time the last two days in traffic jams.

Make art about something unexpectedly positive arising from being stuck in a traffic jam.

8/25/2016

Make art about ceremony.

8/26/2016

Make art about grandmothers.

8/27/2016

Make art about spirituality or faith as a spectator sport.

8/28/2016

Make art about realizing you already had what you though your were looking for.

8/29/2016

Make art about finding family, or about the family you choose, rather than the one you were born to.

8/30/2016

Mercury goes into a three week retrograde, starting today. Careful with communication and travel plans.

Make art about something spinning backwards, or about a snafu in communication or travel.

8/31/2016

Make art about taking a shortcut.

9/1/2016

Make art about coming back home.

9/2/2016

Make art about a specific request from a child.

9/3/2016

Make art about dragons.

9/4/2016

Interestingly, the word dragon derives from two separate Greek words. One word means “a huge serpent or snake” and the other means “I see clearly”.

Make art about seeing the panoramic view, the big picture.

9/5/2016

Make art about getting your wings.

9/6/2016

Recently witnessed a young man in line at the grocery store pay for the purchases of the stranger behind him, just as an act of kindness.

Make art about an act of kindness toward a stranger.

9/7/2016

In that same grocery store line, the woman behind me, even after having witnessed the young man’s spontaneous act of kindness, ranted on about how awful young ones are.

Make art about being blind to what’s right before you.

9/8/2016

Soundtrack for the day: R.E.M.

Make art about losing your religion.

9/9/2016

Whoever the next man in my life turns out to be, he’s gonna need to love onions 🙂 or at least be tolerant of how much I love em.

Make art about loving someone in spite of themselves 🙂

9/10/2016

I have been diagnosed with Complicated Grief Based PTSD. PTSD is so misunderstood.

Make art about PTSD, about the echoes and scars of trauma.

9/11/2016

The sky was so blue that day.

Make art about the tension of beauty set against tragedy.

9/12/2016

“Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy.” (Proverbs 14:10).

Make art about healing bitterness. Or about finding compassion for a bitter person.

9/13/2016

“Where is a woman, there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs, and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort with the spirits.”~Nzotake Shange. Ms. Shange has inspired me since my teen years. She still does, every day.

Pick a line from a writer who has inspired you for years, and use it to inspire art.

9/14/2016

Make art about the Harvest Moon. Or about an eclipse. Use either as a metaphor in a new and different way.

9/15/2016

Make art about stitches, something sewn together, or something coming apart at the seams.

9/16/2016

Make art about a late night visitor.

9/17/2016

We managed to surprise my oldest son with a birthday celebration today 🙂 Not an easy task to catch him off guard that way 🙂

Make art about surprising someone.

9/18/2016

Came home from my walk to find The Fisher King on TV, one of my favorite movies.

Make art inspired by a scene from a favorite film.

9/19/2016

Writing today about a particularly tough lesson I learned.

Make art about a hard lesson.