Daily Prompt Love <3 From Here to There
2 August 2019
“Sweet difficult passages/on your throats/there just there/caterpillar edging/ to moth” — Barbara Guest
Make art about a passage, about passages.
Image by Johannes Plenio from Pixabay
Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category
Daily Prompt Love <3 They're Everywhere
1 August 2019
Make art about what you’re surrounded by.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Jungle Wild
25 July 2019
“Jungle rain had no beginning or end; it grew like foliage from the sky, branching and arching to the earth, sometimes in solid thickets entangling the islands, and other times, in tendrils of blue mist curling out of coastal clouds. The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men.”-Leslie Marmon Silko
Make art using a jungle as the inspiration or central metaphor.
Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
Monday Must Read! The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
A must-read for any writer or storyteller, I think.
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
“A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”
—New York Times
—New York Times
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life’s complex social problems–just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better. We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.
“This is a quite wonderful book. It grips the reader with both stories and stories about the telling of stories, then pulls it all together to explain why storytelling is a fundamental human instinct.”
–Edward O. Wilson
“Charms with anecdotes and examples . . . we have not left nor should we ever leave Neverland.”–Cleveland Plain Dealer
Daily Prompt Love <3 Time for Change
18 July 2019
“Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.” ―
Make art about metamorphosis.
Image by Irina Pechkareva from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Gone
12 July 2019
Make art about extinction, about what’s going extinct.
Image by Felikss Veilands from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Create, Again & Again
22 June 2019
“Curving back within myself I create again and again.” ―The Bhagavad Gita
Make art about that curving back, about recreating yourself.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 About Place–Themed Issue: Infinite Country: Deepening Our Connection to Place, Culture, and One Another
About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Infinite Country
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From 6/1 to 8/1 they’ll be accepting submissions for their Fall 2019 issue Infinite Country: Deepening Our Connection to Place, Culture and One Another.
“Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme.”
More about this theme and submission guidelines: aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
Daily Prompt Love <3 Midsummer!
21 June 2019
Happy Litha! Midsummer! Summer Solstice!
Make art about the solstice, about a solstice ritual, about the long light.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Womxn Magic
20 June 2019
“Where is a woman, there is magic. “–Nzotake Shange
Make art about womxn magic, about a goddess you know.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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