"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

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My Dream of Retreat with The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

So I never imagined myself doing crowdfunding, but the chance of attending this retreat means more to me than I can even begin to say. The work toward Peace and Justice and Love these amazing women do have inspired me daily for more than a decade. So endless gratitude to those who have shared or given. Your support means more than I can ever say ❤ 

And We’re almost there! You guys are amazing! So kind and so generous! ❤Thank you sooo much!

So much of the Thirteen Grandmothers’ work is about healing, but healing is work that we all can do, in every moment, in every interaction we have with each other, and no action is too small. When you hold the door for your sister or brother, when you smile at a child or a dog or a flower, when you forgive another, or yourself, even in those fleeting passing pleasantries you exchange in the coffee aisle at the grocery store, in those small kindnesses, healing power is present. And we need that healing power–your healing power–even more now than ever.

“You are the embodiment of the Grace and the Spirit and the Wisdom of the Ages. You are the Light of the World.”

I’m so grateful to know you are in this world ❤

Visit my Gofundme Campaign Here: gofund.me/13grandmothersretr

 

See more from the THirteen Grandmothers Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3–BseD3Mw

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Midweek Call for Submissions: Chattahoochee Review: Off the Record

Call for Submissions: Off the Record

Deadline: September 15, 2016

 

Off the Record. Disappearing remarks. Invisible people. Music that isn’t there. Intuition. Gut. Unclaimed, unofficial, uncategorized. A record respects the broadest possible audience. Off the record, your audience awaits. What you don’t want to write. We want to read. Note the call in a cover letter.

Deadline September 15 or until the issue fills.

thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu

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Sometimes the Prompt is Your Own Pain, and Growth

14 June 2016

Five years ago today, my beautiful funny sexy irreverent brilliant soulful husband, John Little Bear Eaton, walked on to the next life. 

“what remains with me vividly to this day is my recollection of a circle of light that shone out from Rafe and enfolded us both, and the deep sense of comfort and familiarity between us, as if we had somehow always known each other and were merely resuming a conversation that had gone on from eternity.”
― Cynthia Bourgeault, Love is Stronger than Death: The Mystical Union of Two Souls

 

Make art about the eternal nature of Love. 

 

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Something a Lil Different <3 Thirteen Grandmothers Retreat

Whew. So….something new…and a lil weird feeling, but here goes…

Hello beautiful people 🙂 Thank you for helping out! I am a teacher and a writer, a single mom living in central Virginia, putting the last of my three kids through college by myself.

I have been invited to attend a retreat hosted by The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers in upstate New York, taking place August 25-28, 2016.

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers represent a diverse mixture of women of prayer, Each Grandmother, a leader in her community, has devoted her long life to prayer and action.

You can learn more about the Thirteen Grandmothers here:http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/

This is a healing retreat, Creation to Completion, completing a full cycle that began at Menla twelve-years ago with the creation of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, where the Grandmothers Council will come together, for one last time, to complete their circle of prayer around the planet.

Prayer as Action, Action as Prayer is the way I try to move through each day, and it would be the dream and honor of a lifetime to have the opportunity to learn from these incredible spiritual leaders.
The funds would cover registration, room and board,and my driving travel to upstate New York. The retreat isn’t until late August but space is limited and so time is a factor.

These women embody what I say each day–Every moment a miracle, every footstep a prayer. And to be able to attend this retreat would absolutely be one of my life’s miracles.

If 160 of my FB friends donated just $10, I could have this trip funded in a few minutes. $10 is such a small amount but it adds up so quickly when many friends and family come together. Thank you so, so much ahead of time for liking and sharing, even if you can’t donate at this time, and for my donors, endless gratitude, the biggest thank you of all! ❤

As an added Thank You, I will send each donor a print of one of the photographs I take while on this journey, with a small prayer I will write just for you. ❤

Check it out here ❤ And thanks for readin, for sharin, for bein who you are.

 

https://www.gofundme.com/13grandmothersretr

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Family, and Heartbreak, and Fragility

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 

6/11/2016

Beautiful day with family today.

From “On Family Regathering Seen One Night Through a Window” by George Moor

All flows; the person has no permanence.
The children will grow up, the parents die.
For each precarious present the past tense
Is waiting; all is sort of a lie.
The clean cut fruit in dingy crystal bowls;
The fading chairs; the family sitting down.
For reassurance meet these traveling souls,
Each with an intimate sadness of his own.
Old habits calm. Old stories of old days….

Make art about family.

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6/12/2016

Just don’t have words. Heartbroken.

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6/13/2016

My son and I found this tiny nest yesterday, tumbled on the grass beneath the Guardian Oak. No babies, wounded or otherwise, in sight, just this miracle of weaving, bits of bark and straw and leaf and string. Inside the tiniest shards of shell left behind, thin and white as paper. I was struck at how delicate—and how strong—it is, kinda like Love.

Make art about the fragility, about the persistent strength, of Love.

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Daily Prompt <3 When the Ancestors Are Us

10 June 2016

Your ancestors will surround you as you sleep
             keep away ghosts of generals presidents       priests
             who hunger for your
             rare and tender tongue
             They will keep away ghosts
             so you have strength
             to battle the living
from “Tal’-s-go Gal’-quo-gi Di-del’-qua-s-do-di Tsa-la-gi Di-go-whe-li/ Beginning Cherokee” by QWO-LI DRISKILL

Make art about ancestors, about what we can do to be good ancestors. 

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Hundreds of Prompts! Right Here! :-)

Finally got around to getting this website updated 🙂

Including all those Daily Prompts! Right here! 

Check em out and get your creativity flowing! 

Mary Carroll-Hackett Daily Prompts!   

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Daily Prompt <3 "I'm nobody. Who are you?"

9 June 2016 

Having a bit of an identity crisis 🙂 Maybe not a crisis LOL 😀 but definitely a shift, some kind of transition, reinvention maybe. 

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”― Jeanette Winterson

Make art about changes in identity, about shifting views of the self. 

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Sometimes the Day is the Poem

“And remember to be kind
When the pain of another will serve you to remind
That there are those who feel themselves exiled
On whom the fortune never smiled
And upon whose lives the heartache has been piled….

Be aware of each other.

Take good care of each other.”

 

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Daily Prompt <3 On Mothers and Making Home

7 June 2016

My sweet daughter Lia, a brand new mother to an amazing baby boy Max–I call him Little Star–is beautifully maneuvering her way with Love and tenderness through the new dance of parenting, and marriage as a parent, and her own professional work.

Another sweet young mother I know, one of the daughters of my heart, is in the process of making a new home for her two little ones, having made the courageous decision to leave a marriage that wasn’t working or healthy, for her or her babies.

So I watch them in awe, as my own son used to say, “like we were just us, a crew on our own little pirate ship!”when his brother and sister and he and I were in the same place, me a mom making a home for us 🙂

How these young women astound and inspire me 🙂 how I admire them ❤ 

Make art about mothers, or about the daily rituals that go into making a home. 

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Art by Katie m. Berggren

 

 

 

 

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