Sometimes The Prompt Lights You Up
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Dreamt someone I love built a fire in a snowbank.
Make art about warmth, or about love bringing warmth.
Posts tagged ‘dreams’
Sometimes The Day Is The Poem <3
“dreaming is believing” ❤
who you are is miraculous ❤ never forget that.
Sometimes The Prompt Stops You Cold
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“I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.”~Sir Thomas Wyatt
Make art about the first freeze, about the big freeze, about freezing, or being frozen.
Sometimes the Prompt Really Haunts You
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Working on this chapbook of ghost poems.
Make art about a haunting.
My New Year’s Wish For You <3 My Hope For Us All
There is an old story of a bear who goes into her den to dream the world into being during the winter. She dreams of deer, and pine, of clear water, sweet berries, and buffalo. She creates the world anew, each being, entire ecosystems, during the course of each winter, with her dreams. When she emerges into the green of spring, trailed by her cubs, she celebrates and is celebrated by all the creatures of the earth.
Centuries ago Aristotle said, “The soul cannot think without pictures. The reasoning mind thinks in the form of images… As the mind determines the objects it should pursue or avoid in terms of these images, even in the absence of sensation, it is stimulated to action when occupied with them.”
More recently, Denis Watley, a noted psychologist, brought attention again to this idea through The Secret.
We too can dream our world into being.
Visualization is similar to daydreaming. In both processes you create mental images; the difference between visualization and daydreaming is intention. Daydreaming allows your mind to wander, but when you visualize and focus on something specific, you are putting intention, all your beautiful power as a sacred soul, behind it.
It is the intention that creates the energy that creates the attraction. The attraction starts the action that produces the manifestation.
Ancient cultures understood this well. The bear, with its ability to seemingly die in winter and remerge in spring with new life, has long symbolized transformation, and the transformative power of dreams. Understanding the bear’s gifts, we have looked to this creature as teacher and guide and healer. These connections held true for ancient cultures around the world – anywhere people and bears lived together.
My New Year’s wish for all of you is that you come to know how beautiful and sacred and powerful you truly are, how powerful your dreams, and that in this coming year, you dream your perfect spring into being, that we all do. May 2016, for everyone, be filled with peace, and joy, and Love–always always Love ❤
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt’s Right In Your Own Hands
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“I thought of happiness, how it is woven
Out of the silence in the empty house each day
And how it is not sudden and it is not given
But is creation itself like the growth of a tree….”~May Sarton
Make art about making your own happiness.
Sometimes the Prompt Dances In Like a Gift
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Dreamt the walls of my bedroom melted away and I found myself surrounded by a herd of gentle deer, with their liquid eyes and dancer feet. They nuzzled me with velvet snouts, and whispered Welcome Welcome. We picked our way through a twilight wood, until the trees opened up into broad sweet-smelling fields. And then we ran, and ran, and ran. 🙂
Make art inspired by deer.
Sometimes the Prompt Comes to an End
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Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Places
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Dreamt I could fly. Just empty myself out, lift off, and soar.
Make art about flying.
Sometimes the Prompt Has Wings
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“Angels affect us oft”~John Donne
I’m putting up my first Christmas tree since my husband and brother passed on in 2011. So, I’m a little obsessed right now with making angel ornaments.
Make art about angels.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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