"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

Archive for the ‘Dreams’ Category

Daily Prompt Love x 2 — On Teaching Children, and Feeling Safe

27 January 2018

When I was a child, my parents, who very much lived lives of service, took us little kids with them when they volunteered, at migrant farm camps, at the soup kitchen, while working with refugee families or others, wherever their volunteerism took them. Today, I was blessed to work with amazing parents who are teaching their children by setting the same examples, modeling for them lives of service. The children worked with us, learning what I learned as a kid—that we are, in fact, our brothers’ keepers, and that, yes, a single act of kindness, of service, can make the world a better place.

Make art about what we teach children by our actions.

 

28 January 2018

Make art about feeling unsafe, about steps you take to make yourself feel safe again, about taking down your own dragons.

unsafe dragon

Daily Prompt Love <3 Lingering at the Edge

23 January 2018

Make art about lingering at the edges of a dream. 

edges of a dream

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! 4 New Prompts

19 January 2018

Make art inspired by this quote:

When you find yourself down in a hole, don’t scramble to get out. Stay there for a while and dig for something shiny.”-Betsy Cox

something shiny

20 January 2018

Make art about taking time and making space to listen to the Other.

Other

21 January 2018

Lots of conversation this weekend about faith.

If faith were fabric, the touch of it would feel like….

faith as fabric

22 January 2018

On January 31, we’ll all be treated to something even better—the first Super Blue Moon Eclipse in 150 years.

blue moon is when two full moons happen in the same month (or when four moons happen in one season, where there’d usually be just three and actually has nothing to do with the moon’s color. Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into Earth’s shadow, and supermoons occur when the full moon happens at the same time the moon is closest to Earth in its orbit. On Jan. 31,  all three of these celestial events will happen at the same time.

Read more about it HERE

Make art about a blue moon.

moon woman

Daily Prompt Love <3 Nonviolence

15 January 2018

“The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him….”-Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Make art about nonviolence, about avoiding “internal violence of the spirit.” 

Nonviolence MLK

Daily Prompt Love <3

14 January 2018

Make art about that door you opened. 

door

 

Daily Prompt Love x 2 <3 Trains & Lessons

9 January 2018

Recurrent dream about a train trip, in the 1800s, traveling by train with someone I love, but in another time, another life.

Make art about trains, about riding a train, about the song of a train whistle.

train

10 January 2018

The lessons never end until we leave the body.

Make art about a lesson learned recently.

lesson

Daily Prompt Love <3 On the Way

8 January 2018

Make art about trusting and celebrating the journey. 

Sagan journey quote

Daily Prompt Love <3 Singing, and Solace, and Bridges

7 January 2018

Woke up hearing a beautiful tenor voice singing this song. 

“When evening falls so hard, I will comfort you…..When darkness comes, and pain is all around, Like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind….” 

“Sail on, silver girl, sail on by. Your time has come to shine….”

Make art inspired by the last song you heard. Or about bridges. Or about being there for someone. 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Laugh, Giggle, Titter, Guffaw

19 December 2017 

Dreamt my sweet daddy last night, and man, did we laugh! My daddy could find the funny in anything, and I mean anything, sometimes to the point that Mama’d swat him on the arm and scold, “Hugh! Stop it!” 

He often laughed to the point of tears, his capacity for joy and laughter ‘gettin away with him,’ as we say in the South, and more than once, we kids found ourselves laughing to tears right along with him. 

What a gift that was, his humor, teaching us the freedom and power of laughter, of seeing the funny in whatever we found around us, that teaching us to laugh, especially at ourselves. 

Make art about someone with that capacity for humor, about laughing, about the power of laughter. 

daddy 2

Daily Prompt Love <3 Coalition

13 December 2017

Make art about what’s possible when we work together, about coalition building. 

coalition

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