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.
With my oldest son J, early 1989
9/21/2016
Make art about lighting a candle for someone you Love.
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.
9/23/2016
Love is a Verb.
Make art about Love in action in unexpected ways.
18 August 2016
Gettin that August blast of summer heat!
“I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.”~Violette Leduc
Make art about relentless heat.
19 August 2016
So I stood in my yard today and watched a truck hauling a trailer lose control just long enough to smash my mailbox to smithereens.19 August 2016
Make art about witnessing destruction.
20 August 2016
Visiting with family and looking through some newly discovered old family photographs, including some I’d never seen of that wild lil girl I was 🙂
Make art about yourself as a child.
21 August 2016
My sons helped me shuck, cut, and can six dozen ears of corn today. It’s a messy job, but now the house smells like caramel corn, and we have yummy summer in a jar for those cold winter months.
Make art about a task that’s hard, but worth it.
22 August 2016
I’m headed out later this week for a spiritual retreat and a couple of road trip visits with family. Excited, but fretting over getting all my stuff ready.
Make art about preparing to travel.
17 August 2016
For more information, visit Talk Poverty
Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line—$23,834 for a family of four—in 2014
Percent of people who fell below twice the poverty line—$47,668 for a family of four—in 2014
Percent of people who fell below half the poverty line—$11,917 for a family of four—in 2014
Percentage of children under age 18 who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of African Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of Hispanics who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of non-Hispanic Whites who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of Native Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of people with disabilities who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Make art about poverty.
11 August 2016
Spent all day canning and preserving food. Always takes me back into the company of all those over time who did this before me, especially the women who taught me, as a child, to can and put up food for the winter.
Make art about food as heritage.
12 August 2016
Was abruptly awakened by a crow at the window, informing me—loudly–that the suet cages needed filling 🙂
Make art about being awakened suddenly.
6 August 2016
Time with my daughter, son-in-law, and that miraculous GrandPerson. Looking into my grandson’s eyes, I can see eternity ❤
Make art about what you see in a child’s eyes.
7 August 2016
Love coming home to find tomatoes ripening to red, okra reaching fingers to the sky, even those last cucumbers still making their climb up the trellis 🙂
Deep within each one of us lies a garden.~Julie Moir Messervy
Make art about the garden that lies within you.
8 August 2016
Had the chance today to spend time with my sister and a beautiful cousin I haven’t seen in years. So good for my heart!
Make art about extended family.
9 August 2016
Thinking on this today.
Make art about the power of belief.
2 August 2016
Bought my great-nephew his own ice cream maker and together we made his first homemade ice cream. He declared it was “the best ever!”
Make art about an ice cream memory.
3 August 2016
Had a great conversation with Road Angel Casey, who left her job at Duke University to start a small organic farm, selling vegetables and flowers, nut butters and preserves from a roadside stand.
Make art about taking the risk to grow a dream.
4 August 2016
A woman at a gas station came running toward me, smiling and waving and yelling, “Donna! Donna! I haven’t seen you in so long!” I smiled, shaking my head, waiting for her to realize that I wasn’t Donna after all. As she reached me, her face fell, and she looked so embarraassed, and I said, “I’m sorry.” She laughed and said, “No, I’m sorry. I could’ve sworn–” She laughed. I said, “I’m Mary, but I bet you could find Donna, if you looked. Have you tried Facebook?” I told her about finding my friend Lynne again after many years, and how blessed we both felt. She said, “I haven’t looked for her, but I think I will.” She left smiling, and I finished pumping my gas, climbing back into my car, wishing, for just a second, I had been Donna, this friend who brought such a smile to the woman’s face.
Make art about mistaken identity. Or about finding that wonderful friend again.
5 August 2016
Dreamt I was in a crowded park handing out sparklers. So many sparklers, so many people. Before too long, the park was shimmering with light and color.
Make art about ways of sharing Light.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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