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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Finally! 24 New Creativity-Inspiring Prompts!

And hopefully I’m back on track with these 🙂 ❤ Love y’all!

10/10/2016

Make art about buried treasure.

10/11/2016

Make art about working toward a goal.

10/12/2016

Make art about the sound of walking.

10/13/2016

Make art about frailty.

10/14/2016

Make art about a youngest child, that last child.

10/15/2016

Make art about what’s revealed in the moonlight.

10/16/2016

Make art about birds on a wire.

10/17/2016

Make art about going back in time.

10/18/2016

Make art about leaving an inheritance, or receiving one, on what’s inherited.

10/19/2016

My mama used to quote the Bible, saying, “Never a prophet in your own land.” Make art inspired by this quote.

10/20/2016

Make art about transitions.

10/21/2016

I really want to take a ceramics class. Make art about what you want to learn.

10/22/2016

Make art about excavation, literal or metaphorical.

10/23/2016

Canning apples for days. Make art about the fruits of autumn.

10/24/2016

Make art about every day angel encounters.

10/25/2016

Make art about the sacredness of water.

10/26/2016

Make art about making a trip home.

10/27/2016

Make art about what kind of road your heart would be.

10/28/2016

“When born, you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Make art inspired by this quote.

10/29/2016

Make art about night driving.

10/30/2016

A friend came across an old painting that looks just like me. Make art about doppelgangers.

10/31/2016

I set out food for the ancestors, cornmeal and milk for the wee folk, lit a fire and watched it burn. Make art about ancient traditions.

11/1/2016

Sometimes the sorrow is so deep, all I know to do is cook. Make art about process sorrow in an unexpected way.

11/2/2016

Make art consoling, receiving, or giving, consolation.

11/3/2016

Make art about feeling paralyzed.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Reconnecting through Common Ground

10/9/2016

Make art about connections made through food, connections in the present, or to the past. 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Leaves, & Autumn, & Just Going From Here

10/1/2016

Walking in these West Virginia mountains 🙂

“The falling leaves, all over the forest, are protecting the roots of my plants. Only look at what is to be seen, and you will have garden enough, without deepening the soil in your yard. We have only to elevate our view a little to see the whole forest as a garden.” ~Thoreau

Make art about ‘garden enough.’

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10/2/2016

Driving back from WV, I stopped for gas, and Road Angel Louise tells me her story of trying to recover from the recent flooding, what it’s like to lose so much. “Just go from here, I reckon,” she said.

Make art about rebounding from tragedy, about how we ‘just go from here.’

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10/3/2016

Dreamt someone I love brought me apples, Honey Crisp and Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Winesap, even a couple of Arkansas Black. He sliced one with his sharp knife, and smiling, said, Here you go, Missy. A taste of what’s to come.

Make art about the taste of autumn. Or about what’s to come.

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Big Ol’ Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Almost a Month’s Worth of Prompts! Gettin back on track around here :-)

8/24/2016

Spent a lot of time the last two days in traffic jams.

Make art about something unexpectedly positive arising from being stuck in a traffic jam.

8/25/2016

Make art about ceremony.

8/26/2016

Make art about grandmothers.

8/27/2016

Make art about spirituality or faith as a spectator sport.

8/28/2016

Make art about realizing you already had what you though your were looking for.

8/29/2016

Make art about finding family, or about the family you choose, rather than the one you were born to.

8/30/2016

Mercury goes into a three week retrograde, starting today. Careful with communication and travel plans.

Make art about something spinning backwards, or about a snafu in communication or travel.

8/31/2016

Make art about taking a shortcut.

9/1/2016

Make art about coming back home.

9/2/2016

Make art about a specific request from a child.

9/3/2016

Make art about dragons.

9/4/2016

Interestingly, the word dragon derives from two separate Greek words. One word means “a huge serpent or snake” and the other means “I see clearly”.

Make art about seeing the panoramic view, the big picture.

9/5/2016

Make art about getting your wings.

9/6/2016

Recently witnessed a young man in line at the grocery store pay for the purchases of the stranger behind him, just as an act of kindness.

Make art about an act of kindness toward a stranger.

9/7/2016

In that same grocery store line, the woman behind me, even after having witnessed the young man’s spontaneous act of kindness, ranted on about how awful young ones are.

Make art about being blind to what’s right before you.

9/8/2016

Soundtrack for the day: R.E.M.

Make art about losing your religion.

9/9/2016

Whoever the next man in my life turns out to be, he’s gonna need to love onions 🙂 or at least be tolerant of how much I love em.

Make art about loving someone in spite of themselves 🙂

9/10/2016

I have been diagnosed with Complicated Grief Based PTSD. PTSD is so misunderstood.

Make art about PTSD, about the echoes and scars of trauma.

9/11/2016

The sky was so blue that day.

Make art about the tension of beauty set against tragedy.

9/12/2016

“Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy.” (Proverbs 14:10).

Make art about healing bitterness. Or about finding compassion for a bitter person.

9/13/2016

“Where is a woman, there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs, and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort with the spirits.”~Nzotake Shange. Ms. Shange has inspired me since my teen years. She still does, every day.

Pick a line from a writer who has inspired you for years, and use it to inspire art.

9/14/2016

Make art about the Harvest Moon. Or about an eclipse. Use either as a metaphor in a new and different way.

9/15/2016

Make art about stitches, something sewn together, or something coming apart at the seams.

9/16/2016

Make art about a late night visitor.

9/17/2016

We managed to surprise my oldest son with a birthday celebration today 🙂 Not an easy task to catch him off guard that way 🙂

Make art about surprising someone.

9/18/2016

Came home from my walk to find The Fisher King on TV, one of my favorite movies.

Make art inspired by a scene from a favorite film.

9/19/2016

Writing today about a particularly tough lesson I learned.

Make art about a hard lesson.

 

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Talk Poverty

17 August 2016 

US Poverty Rates as of 2014

For more information, visit Talk Poverty

Overall Poverty Rate: 14.8%

Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line—$23,834 for a family of four—in 2014

Twice the Poverty Level: 33.4%

Percent of people who fell below twice the poverty line—$47,668 for a family of four—in 2014

Half the Poverty Level: 6.6%

Percent of people who fell below half the poverty line—$11,917 for a family of four—in 2014

Child Poverty Rate: 21.1%

Percentage of children under age 18 who fell below the poverty line in 2014

African American Poverty Rate: 26.2%

Percentage of African Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014

Hispanic Poverty Rate: 23.6%

Percentage of Hispanics who fell below the poverty line in 2014

White Poverty Rate: 10.1%

Percentage of non-Hispanic Whites who fell below the poverty line in 2014

Native American Poverty Rate: 28.3%

Percentage of Native Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014

People with Disabilities Poverty Rate: 28.5%

Percentage of people with disabilities who fell below the poverty line in 2014

Make art about poverty. 

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Daily Prompt Love! <3 Cooking and What Woke You :-)

 

11 August 2016

Spent all day canning and preserving food. Always takes me back into the company of all those over time who did this before me, especially the women who taught me, as a child, to can and put up food for the winter.

Make art about food as heritage.

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12 August 2016

Was abruptly awakened by a crow at the window, informing me—loudly–that the suet cages needed filling 🙂

Make art about being awakened suddenly.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Sometimes the Prompt is an Ice Cream Memory, or a Soft Sparkle in the Dark

 

2 August 2016

Bought my great-nephew his own ice cream maker and together we made his first homemade ice cream. He declared it was “the best ever!” 

Make art about an ice cream memory. 

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3 August 2016

Had a great conversation with Road Angel Casey, who left her job at Duke University to start a small organic farm, selling vegetables and flowers, nut butters and preserves from a roadside stand.

Make art about taking the risk to grow a dream.

 

 

4 August 2016

A woman at a gas station came running toward me, smiling and waving and yelling, “Donna! Donna! I haven’t seen you in so long!” I smiled, shaking my head, waiting for her to realize that I wasn’t Donna after all. As she reached me, her face fell, and she looked so embarraassed, and I said, “I’m sorry.” She laughed and said, “No, I’m sorry. I could’ve sworn–” She laughed. I said, “I’m Mary, but I bet you could find Donna, if you looked. Have you tried Facebook?” I told her about finding my friend Lynne again after many years, and how blessed we both felt. She said, “I haven’t looked for her, but I think I will.” She left smiling, and I finished pumping my gas, climbing back into my car, wishing, for just a second, I had been Donna, this friend who brought such a smile to the woman’s face.

Make art about mistaken identity. Or about finding that wonderful friend again.

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5 August 2016

Dreamt I was in a crowded park handing out sparklers. So many sparklers, so many people. Before too long, the park was shimmering with light and color.

Make art about ways of sharing Light.

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30 July 2016

Finally got started on my summer canning.

Make art about preserving something.

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31 July 2016

“We move to find what we cannot see”~David Wagoner

Make art about forms of blindness.

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1 August 2016

Earth. Air. Fire. Water.

Make art about an elemental force.

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Sold Out

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Pre-winter-storm panic is on where I am.
 
Make art about needing bread and milk.
 
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Sometimes the Prompt Has to Cook For a Bit

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❤ Makin Sweet Potato Pie with my daughter today.

Make art inspired by a family recipe.

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