Anne Sexton
Thanks and Love to my lil brother Scott Sumner for inspiring today’s
Daily Prompt ❤
“Every day we bear up under
the liminal weight of air,
a million pounds and more,
in tiny increments
because we’ve grown used to it…”~Dan Gerber
Make art about the weight of invisible things.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂 My sons were home!
10/24/2015
Teaching a workshop on Creative Meditation Techniques today, which will include painting with our fingers! 🙂 Make art about fingerpaint–or–go on–you know you wanta!–break out the paints yourself and get a lil fingerpainting on!
10/25/2015
Both my sons home today. They make me laugh like no one else. Make art about sons.
10/26/2015
“You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think.”~Laura Oliver Make art about resistance.
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10/22/2015
“I want to remember us this way—late September sun streaming through
the window, bread loaves and golden bunches of grapes on the table, spoonfuls of hot soup rising to our lips, filling us with what endures.”~Peter Pereira
Make art about sustenance.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂
10/15/2015
I have one dog who thinks she’s Houdini, constantly coming up with magic ways to get out of my fenced yard. Make art about escape.
10/16/2015
“The sky hangs up its starry pictures: a swan, a crab, a horse”~Barbara Crooker Make art inspired by constellations.
10/17/2015
I’m conducting a workshop this weekend on Writing Prayer. Write your own prayer, or chant, or gratitude letter. Make art that is prayer.
10/18/2015
Nighttime & Dreams Daily Prompt
Last night I dreamt my beautiful friend Beth and I were escorting a huge group–hundreds–of people on some kind of trek to safety through a beautiful wild desert-like landscape. Beth walked in the front of the long long line of people, and I covered the back, making sure we lost no one. I carried a small child, a little boy with outrageously blue eyes, on my hip, We had planned for years for the time when we would have to do this, and so we knew what we had to do to get them where we were taking them safely. It felt good and strong and somehow celebratory, despite knowing it was a rescue and there was so much that had to be done. I was very glad to have Beth there with me.
Make art about rescue.
10/19/2015
First frost of the fall 🙂 My cold frames are keeping the winter garden safe. Make art about protecting something from the cold.
10/20/2015
Today included seriously the most amazing nap 🙂 Make art about naps.
10/21/2015
Thinkin on Call & Response. Call and response is a form of “spontaneous verbal non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements (‘calls’) are punctuated by expressions (‘responses’) from the listener.” Make art using a call & response exchange.
10/14/2015
Daily Prompt
My youngest son, Dean, has a birthday today 🙂 Twenty-one years ago, my greatest teacher was born 🙂 He arrived earlier than expected, a laid back observer of the universe even as he rested swaddled in my arms 🙂 I am so awed by the man he is, smart, funny, loving, with the courage to take on his own lessons, and his Baby Buddha ability to release what should be let go. 🙂 “Chill, Mom, It’s all gonna be okay.”
Make art about the teachers in your life
10/13/2015
Daily Prompt
Putting in the winter garden, prepping so I’ll have them wonderful leafy greens even when the snow comes.
Make art about the ways we prepare for winter.
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