Daily Prompt
“Today I’m building myself/from the bones/of flowers”~Mary Carroll-Hackett
Make art about the self as a seed, a growing thing requiring nurturing, a blossom.
(from a poem that originally appeared in Tar River Poetry, one that will be my book coming out this spring, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press).
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.
Just realized this morning that come Friday, I’ll officially reach ONE YEAR of this Daily Prompt Madness! So much fun! Hope you’ve enjoyed it too! Git that creativity on, y’all!
Check out the Daily Prompt Big List here! And please share!
The more beautiful art we put into this crazy world, the better!
https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
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
Was greeted by frost on the windows this morning. Oh those fractals!
“Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour.”~William Blake
Make art about fractal patterns in nature. Or create art where the structure is inspired by fractal patterns.
2/21/2016
Crocus! Tiny purple blooms announcing the slow change of season today in the yard! Make art about the first signs of spring.
2/22/2016
I bought my first ever new car in 2010, and today, I paid that Lil Red Beauty off! I grew up poor, so this is a big deal for me, as someone who has had a very complicated relationship with money. Make art about finishing something. Or about your relationsip with money.
Grunge rubber stamp with text paid in full inside,vector illustration
2/23/2016
Did an exercise with my Baby Poets last night where they did freewrites in response to a scent. Make art about a memory evoked by a particular scent.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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