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Archive for the ‘Love’ Category

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! A Little Help From Some Friends

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.

hands in 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. 

queen_cups

New Publication! Thanks to The Blue Heron Review!

Grateful to the fine editors at Blue Heron Review for including me.

The poem here will be part of A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming later this spring from FutureCycle Press

Scroll down to read all of the wonderful writers. I’m honored to be in their company ❤

My poem “It Is Not What Waits At the Door, This Love” 🙂

http://blueheronreview.com/blue-heron-review-issue-5-winter2016/

Sometimes the Prompt Is In the Pattern

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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. 

frost fgractals

New Publications :-) Thanks to the editors at The Grief Diaries!

Gratitude and Love to the editors at The Grief Diaries for giving the first Ghost poems a home ❤ These poems are from my newest as yet unpublished collection, entitled Death For Beginners. 
 

Sometimes the Prompt Sees You Through

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Make art about the preciousness of sight.

glasses

 

Sometimes the Prompt Leads to Clarity

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Make art about choosing where you focus. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Opens Us Up

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Harvard Launches Free Online Class To Promote Religious Literacy
 
Make art about tolerance.
 

Sometimes You Have To Give the Prompt Away

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“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”~Kahlil Gibran

Just wrote an email to a famous person on behalf of a former student, not at the student’s request, but just because i believe the student’s amazing and if nothing else, I can put the kid’s name in front of someone, And yeah it’s a totally idealistic shot in the dark, but what the hey? Lifetime mantra: The worst they can do is tell me No, right? And if they do, then I’m no worse off than I was before I asked. 🙂 

Survival tip #1 for me? When the moment feels darkest, do something good and loving for someone else. That’s what brings the Light ❤

Make art about healing through generosity. 

giving

 

Sometimes the Prompt Sets You Free

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“I am in love, hence free to live by heart”~Vera Pavlova
 
Make art about freedom.
free heart
 

What Makes Our Writing Community So Beautiful! MockingHeart Review

Thanks and Love to that angel Clare L. Martin for helping to celebrate Trailer Park Oracle over at her beautiful journal MockingHeart Review!

Generosity and sacred hearts like Clare’s are what make our community of writers such a blessing ❤

I tell my students, “Community doesn’t just happen. We have to take care of each other.”

If you haven’t yet, please visit and support MockingHeart Review!

Spread the Love, y’all! ❤

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