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Archive for the ‘Writing Prompts’ Category

Sometimes the Prompt Comes in Intervals

11/17/2015
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Kept hittin the snooze button 🙂 
Make art about the need to keep dreaming.
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

11/14/2015

Met up with sweet friends to commemorate the anniversary of my brother’s death. Make art about a difficult anniversary.

11/15/2015

House filled with family, and ghosts. Make art about what haunts you.

11/16/2015

“I once was a child am a child am someone’s child”~Victoria Chang

Make art about feeling like a child.

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Never Ends

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”~Henry David Thoreau
 
Make art about things eternal.
 
(Photo by my late husband John Little Bear Eaton)
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Sometimes the Prompt Goes On and On

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“When the singer’s gone Let the song go on”~Art Garfunkle
 
Make art about the persistence of Love.
 
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Sometimes the Prompt is Unsung

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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

Make art about heroism, about heroes.

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Sometimes the Prompt is on Fire

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“When born you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Tattooed on my right arm. Considering the courage of the activists at University of Missouri.

Make art about protest.

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

Daily Prompt Catch-Up

November 7

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”~ Joseph Campbell

Make art about braving the darkness. 

November 8

Wrote a poem today called “The List of Dangers.”

Make art about an unexpected form of danger. 

November 9

Keep hearin the song Little Boxes this morning. Most people now know it as the theme song for the TV show Weeds, but it originally was recorded in 1961 by American folk artist Malvina Reynolds. 

Make art inspired by little boxes. 

Sometimes the Prompt is What the Heart Remembers

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“I know I’ve loved you before.”~Melissa Etheridge

Make art about other lives, about remembering Love.

Sometimes the Prompt Just Makes Good Sense

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“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things”~Wallace Stevens
 
Make art about the practicality of autumn.
 
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