Daily Prompt
Great conversation thread yesterday started by the amazing poet and person Karen Craigo on Facebook regarding what we can do all to support poetry and other poets. Got me thinking about how my mama always quoted John Donne, his “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,” saying “No man is an island.”
Make art about community, abut community-building, about our need for community.
Two Prompts ‘Cause I’m Sooooo Happy Spring’s Here!
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Dreamt last night I was playing with a little bitty baby bear We tussled and snuggled and giggled and romped. Make art about a baby’s capacity for joy. 🙂 Or about a bear. 🙂
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Make art with the first day of spring, about rebirth.
Daily Prompt
Make art about the difference between hearing and listening.
“So long now I been out in the rain and snow, but Winter’s come and gone, a little bird told me so….” 🙂 ❤ New beginnings, y’all. Letting go of what doesn’t work, moving forward to where Love is ❤
Daily Prompt
Before my mama went on to the next life, she told me “You’ve got to LET someone love you, Mary, really Love you.” One of the lessons I’m still learning, both about myself, and about other people.
You can only love someone as much as they’ll let you.
Make art inspired by this.
Great insights on this can be found here.
Daily Prompt
Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?
Make art about an imaginary friend.
3 /4/2016
I have Complicated Grief-Related PTSD. Some days I’m okay. Some days I think I’m okay, then I’m just—not, not okay at all.
Make art about grief.
3/5/2016
The only way I have survived the extreme loss I’ve experienced in my life is by making a choice every day, sometimes every moment, to live not in grief, but in Gratitude.
Make art about Gratitude.
3/6/2016
Both my sons were home this weekend, and one of my greatest joys is to see them together as grown men, not just brothers, but friends. My best friend was my brother, and my oldest son once said, “How cool it is—to find your own best friend right in your family!”
Make art about siblings as friends.
So grateful to be blessed with good friends. Both prompts are inspired by the kindness of friends these last few days.
3/1/2016
My wise brother told me, in so many words, to remember that we can’t grasp the river.
Make art about letting it all flow as it will. Or about a river.
3/2/2016
A sweet friend arrived with her tarot deck in hand and offered to give me a reading.
Make art inspired by the tarot.
Daily Prompt
Make art about early morning driving.
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