"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Posts tagged ‘death’

Daily Prompt <3 What You Would Have Said

17 June 2016

“They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying.”~Neil Gaiman

Make art about what you wish you had said before they died. 

talking to the dying

 

 

Newest Publication! Thanks to Rogue Agent!

Thanks to Jill Khoury and all the good folks at Rogue Agent 🙂 Thrilled to be included in their anniversary issue!

http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/mcarrollhackett

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.

grief-reaction

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.

gratitude-rock

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.

boys

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.

 

ghost child

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