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Archive for the ‘Love’ Category

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Survivors and Rain

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

3/18/2016

Make art about survivors.

stronger

3/19/2016

Make art inspired by a rainy Saturday.

rainy_days_by_ridiculousdream

Sometimes the Day is the Poem

“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 ❤

Sometimes You Have To Let the Prompt In

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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.

broken heart

 

Great insights on this can be found here.

Sometimes the Prompt Is Just Out of Our Reach

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Make art about searching for something. 

searching_for_something__by_jashxxx-d317nbu

 

Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Us Alone

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“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

Make art about solitude, about needing solitude, about the solace in solitude.

solitude

Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Are

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Make art about the flow of energy.

Sometimes the Prompt Keeps Us Company

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Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?

Make art about an imaginary friend.

imaginary friend

Sometimes the Day Is the Poem, and It’s Golden <3

Woke up hearing someone singing this, a tenor so golden it surely came from heaven ❤

“You’ll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley. You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold….”

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Grief, Gratitude, and Finding Best Friends

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.

grief-reaction

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.

gratitude-rock

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.

boys

We’re Almost There! Prompts, Prompts, & More Prompts!

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/

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