27 March 2020
My four-leggeds are so much company and solace, even more than usual, right now.
Make art about the comfort of critters, about what animal companions bring to our lives, especially in times of stress.
12 July 2019
Make art about extinction, about what’s going extinct.
Image by Felikss Veilands from Pixabay
28 May 2019
Dreamt of beautiful black bears last night. Make art about bears, about dreaming of bears, about what bears represent for you.
26 May 2019
Make art about the first time you met someone you Love.
Baby Moco
3 April 2019
Make art about the vulnerability of animals, about the absolute trust of a pet.
27 March 2019
Make art about being caged, about feeling caged, about escaping the cage.
17 February 2019
A recurring dream returned last night, one where an old wolf, his amber eyes glowing, appears in my bedroom. He circles the room a few times, then climbs up on the end of my bed, curls up and goes to sleep.
Make art about a recurring dream, or wolves.
12 February 2019
Once when I was a little girl, with my mama, we encountered a particularly grumpy, difficult person. As we moved away from the angry man, under her breath, Mama murmured in her lilting Southern accent, “Mmm, somebody kicked that dog.”
Being the mouthy kid I was, and an animal lover 🙂 I immediately asked, “Dog? What dog, Mama?”
She smiled, saying, “Not a real dog, Mary. That man.”
“The mean one?” I asked.
She nodded, and explained, “When we meet a dog that seems mean, or aggressive, growling at us, we never assume the dog was born vicious, right? We assume that something has happened, that the dog has been mistreated or hurt in some way that made it mean. But we don’t give difficult people the same benefit of the doubt, do we?” She smiled. “Maybe we should.”
Make art about compassion, about a moment you learned compassion, or recognized that you needed to respond with compassion.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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