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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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Daily Prompt Love <3 Gettin Elemental

 

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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Daily Prompt <3 You Know…That Woman

29 July 2016 

Mama always said I came into the world asking forgiveness instead of permission. 

Make art about fearless women. 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Windows, Thirst, and Falling in Love

 

26 July 2016

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ― Edith Wharton

Make art about a window opening.

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27 July 2016

Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Make art about what you thirst for.

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28 July 2016

Make art about falling in Love with the world, even—especially–when it seems to be at its most heartbreaking, when it seems too difficult to Love.

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Thresholds and John Donne

24 July 2016

Liminal (adj.)

“of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1884, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality.

Definition: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

Make art about being on a threshold, being in a liminal space.

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25 July 2016

Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”~John Donne

Make art about being your own palace, or about the world as a jail. 

 

 

 

Daily Prompt <3 What the Body Has To Say

23 July 2016

Reading one of my favorite writers this morning, Linda Hogan. If only we all could listen in the miraculous way she does. 

“When the body wishes to speak, she will”~Linda Hogan

Make art about what the body has to say. 

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Daily Prompt <3 The Power of Choice

22 July 2016

Make art inspired by this quote.

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Revolution, Creation, and Dreaming

7/19/2016

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”~John Kennedy

 

Make art about revolution.

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7/20/2016

When the world becomes too much, I make things, usually for other people. So this week I’m sewing old fashioned cloth dolls to send to the children’s unit at the Massey Cancer Center.

Make art about when the world becomes too much.

 

7/21/2016

In the way I was taught, there are four fundamental types of dreams: waking life dreams; visitation dreams; teaching dreams; and traveling dreams.

Make art about one of these types of dreams.

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18 Months of Daily Prompts!

Get that creativity flowing! 

https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3

 

7/16/2016

Late, I have come to a parched land/doubting my gift, if gift I have,/the inspiration of water”~Dannie Abse

Make art about the inspiration of water.

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7/17/2016

Poor dear son, though you were not my son, I felt to love you as a son, what short time I saw you sick & dying here—“~Walt Whitman (letter to Erastus Haskell’s parents)

Make art about how they are all our sons.

 

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7/18/2016

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”~Mother Teresa

Make art about the open heart.

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