Daily Prompt Love <3 Place
10 April 2019
Make art about a place abandoned, about the spirit of an old place, about what the land remembers.
Gardi, GA. Photo by John Eaton
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Poverty
9 April 2019
Make art about poverty, about the scars poverty leaves, about the cost of poverty on the rest of society, about institutionalized poverty.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Blind
5 April 2019
” I learned my body like a blind child”–Darcy Cummings
Surgery on my eyes when I was a child resulted in my spending significant time without my vision. In the later years of her life, my mother went blind. The experience taught us both surprising things.
Make art about blindness, about being blind, about turning a blind eye, about what can be learned in the dark.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Children Rise
15 March 2019
Today, children in some 100 countries are walking out of school to push for global action on climate change. Over the last four months, hundreds of thousands of young people from many countries participated in demonstrations against climate change.
Make art about children leading the way. Or about climate change.
Read more details on the Global Youth Climate Strike here.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Daughters
3 March 2019
Today is my daughter’s 32nd birthday. She is beautiful and brave and smart and loving, and I am grateful and humbled to know her. She has been and remains one of my most important teachers.
Make art about daughters.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Burning Building
20 February 2019
“you say love is a burning building: then run in:”–JP Dancing Bear
Make art about that burning building.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Blood
18 February 2019
There is blood, there, he says
Blood here too, down here, she says
Only blood, the Blood Mother sings – Juan Felipe Herrera
Make art about what the blood remembers.
Daily Prompt <3 The Kicked Dog
12 February 2019
Once when I was a little girl, with my mama, we encountered a particularly grumpy, difficult person. As we moved away from the angry man, under her breath, Mama murmured in her lilting Southern accent, “Mmm, somebody kicked that dog.”
Being the mouthy kid I was, and an animal lover 🙂 I immediately asked, “Dog? What dog, Mama?”
She smiled, saying, “Not a real dog, Mary. That man.”
“The mean one?” I asked.
She nodded, and explained, “When we meet a dog that seems mean, or aggressive, growling at us, we never assume the dog was born vicious, right? We assume that something has happened, that the dog has been mistreated or hurt in some way that made it mean. But we don’t give difficult people the same benefit of the doubt, do we?” She smiled. “Maybe we should.”
Make art about compassion, about a moment you learned compassion, or recognized that you needed to respond with compassion.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Doing v Being
10 February 2019
Talked with a friend yesterday about the difference we need to remember: between being a human doing and human being. We’re driven to do, and we forget how much we need and should value rest.
Make art about rest, about the struggle to rest, about your restful place, about finding real rest.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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