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Posts tagged ‘best friends’

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3

9/20/2016

It’s my oldest son’s birthday today. I never could have know, twenty-eight years ago, that I wasn’t just having a baby: I was meeting one of my best ever friends.

Make art about adult children. Or about best friends.

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With my oldest son J, early 1989

9/21/2016

Make art about lighting a candle for someone you Love.

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9/22/2016

Been thinking all day about living in other times. I would have made a terrible Victorian woman 🙂

Make art imagining yourself in another time, another era.

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9/23/2016

Love is a Verb.

Make art about Love in action in unexpected ways.

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, Family, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Grief, Gratitude, and Finding Best Friends

3 /4/2016

I have Complicated Grief-Related PTSD. Some days I’m okay. Some days I think I’m okay, then I’m just—not, not okay at all.

Make art about grief.

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3/5/2016

The only way I have survived the extreme loss I’ve experienced in my life is by making a choice every day, sometimes every moment, to live not in grief, but in Gratitude.

Make art about Gratitude.

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3/6/2016

Both my sons were home this weekend, and one of my greatest joys is to see them together as grown men, not just brothers, but friends. My best friend was my brother, and my oldest son once said, “How cool it is—to find your own best friend right in your family!”

Make art about siblings as friends.

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, Love, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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A Lil Something Published at Life in 10 Minutes

Thanks to Valley for including me at Life in 10 Minutes  🙂

http://www.lifein10minutes.com/your-10/2015/8/11/brother-bill

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Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, publishing, Writing

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