Sometimes the Prompt Is Doubtful
Daily Prompt
My son jokes, saying he doesn’t believe in electricity.
Make art inspired by the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as….’
Posts tagged ‘Family’
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Anticipation, Animals, and a Little Bit of Messiah Thrown In
Dec 24
Remembering being a little kid breathlessly waiting for Santa 🙂 Make art about anticipation.
Dec 25
Much of the work I did in papers for my Anthropology degree focused on the origins of Judaism and early Christianity, a lot of it centered around belief in a messiah, in messianic traditions. Many religions have a messiah concept, including the Jewish Messiah (from which the term and meaning originates, from the Hebrew in which the word Messiah is identical to the noun and adjectiveמשיח (mashiach), meaning Anointed One, and comes from the Hebrew verbמשח (mashah), meaning to anoint. Other messianic traditions include the Christian Christ( the Greek translation of the Hebrew root word), the Muslim Mahdi and Isa (one of the Arabic names for Jesus), the Buddhist Maitreya, the Hindu Kalki, the Zoroastrian Saoshyant and He whom God shall make manifest in Bábism (believed to be Bahá’u’lláh by Bahais). The state of the world, in most of these traditions, is seen as hopelessly flawed beyond normal human powers of correction, and divine intervention through a specially selected and supported human is seen as necessary.
Make art about saviors. Make art redefining what it might mean to be a savior. Make art about being your own savior.
Dec 26
Traveling to celebrate with family today. Make art about a family roadtrip.
Dec 27
Watching PBS nature documentaries with my son 🙂 Make art about the candor and ingenuity of animals.
Monday Must Read! Nancy Peacock: A Broom of One’s Own
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Nancy Peacock! Nancy is a mostly self-taught author. Her first novel, Life Without Water, was chosen as a New York Times Most Notable Book. She followed with a second novel, Home Across the Road. Her collection of essays on writing and housecleaning, (a personal favorite here in Mary’s house :-)) A Broom of One’s Own was published by Harper Collins. Her third novel The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson will be published in 2016 by Atria Press. Peacock has supported herself and her writing life with numerous jobs including housecleaner, bartender, carpenter, paper deliverer, assistant drum maker, costumer, baker, milker on a dairy farm, and teacher.
Nancy’s also an incredibly generous spirit, offering ongoing classes and workshops aimed at helping other writers, and she hosts a don’t-miss blog, Matginalia, filled with wonderful insight and writer wisdom.
Visit Nancy’s website:
Check Out Nancy’s Beautiful Books!
Life Without Water
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Water-Nancy-Peacock/dp/0553379291
Home Across the Road
A Broom of One’s Own
http://www.harpercollins.com/9780061357879/a-broom-of-ones-own
Read Nancy’s Blog!
http://nancypeacockbooks.com/wp/
Praise for Nancy’s Work:
Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56352-337-3
Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-peacock/the-life-and-times-of-persimmon-wilson/
Southern Scribe
http://www.southernscribe.com/reviews/general_fiction/Home_Across_Road.htm
Reading Group Guides:
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/life-without-water
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/home-across-the-road
Classes & Workshops
http://nancypeacockbooks.com/classes/
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Gifts & Soup & Conspiracy Theories
Dec 18
Wrapping presents 🙂 I’ve never before managed to have them wrapped this early LOL Make art about something kept under wraps.
Dec 19
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Made Garden Vegetable Soup for me and my son.
Make art about soup.
Dec 20
Read a new story this morning about someone carrying a belief in a conspiracy theory too far. Make art about conspiracy.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Left Behind For You
Daily Prompt
Just drafted a poem called The Words Mama Left Me.
Make art about inheritance.
Sometimes the Prompt Dances In Like a Gift
Daily Prompt
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 Is A Tender Touch
Daily Prompt
Thinkin of all the loving care my nurse mama and sister gave their patients for decades.
Make art about nurses, about caretakers.
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Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action
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Mornin news story on how law enforcement s now strongly encouragin people to report it if their neighbors are actin odd or “suspicious.” One of the signs they mentioned is havin lots of deliveries, like from UPS. If this is the standard, I’m screwed. Totalitarianism for breakfast 😦
Because I think we need to….Make art about resistance.
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For the Consideration of Poets
by Haki Madhubuti
where is the poetry of resistance,
the poetry of honorable defiance
unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men,
not respectful of journalist who write
official speak void of educated thought
without double search or sub surface questions
that war talk demands?
where is the poetry of doubt and suspicion
not in the service of the state, bishops and priests,
not in the service of beautiful people and late night promises,
not in the service of influence, incompetence and academic
clown talk?
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Sometimes the Prompt Is Triumphant
Daily Prompt
“Perfect Love casts out fear.”~John 4:18
Make art about the triumph of Love.
Sometimes You Give the Prompt Away
Daily Prompt
It’s Giving Tuesday
Make art about giving, about an act of charity.
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