Daily Prompt Love <3 Burning Building
20 February 2019
“you say love is a burning building: then run in:”–JP Dancing Bear
Make art about that burning building.
Posts tagged ‘Art as Prayer’
Daily Prompt Love <3 It's Okay to Ask
19 February 2019
Took me a long time, a lifetime, to learn to do this.
Make art about asking for help.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Blood
18 February 2019
There is blood, there, he says
Blood here too, down here, she says
Only blood, the Blood Mother sings – Juan Felipe Herrera
Make art about what the blood remembers.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Dreams & Wolves
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.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Begins With Rain
16 February 2019
“I think to Earth
it looks like the first first rain, the water
of the beginning”- Jeffrey Bean
Make art about what begins with rain, or that begins with rain, or about ‘the first first rain.’
Daily Prompt Love <3 Lost in the Branches
15 February 2019
Woke this morning to the heartbreaking sound of chainsaws, taking down several large oaks at the little church across the street, trees that are easily hundreds of years old. The crash as they fell echoed all around us.
Make art about what’s lost when we lose a tree, about what’s lost in those branches, or about the spirit of trees.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Withholding
13 February 2019
Withhold, conceal, hide, hold back, keep, keep back, keep secret, refuse, repress, sit on, suppress
Withholding information, a good thing or a bad thing?
Make art about something being withheld, or about choosing to withhold, or about the results of information being withheld.
Daily Prompt <3 The Kicked Dog
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.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Ready
11 February 2019
A weekend busy with work, but I managed to finish the prep for all five of the classes I’m teaching this semester. I also got meal prep done for the week, and got a jump on a project not due for a couple of weeks. Feeling all kinds of adult-prepared right now 🙂
Make art about being ready.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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