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Posts tagged ‘Gratitude’

Sometimes the Prompt Needs Some Preparation :-)

10/13/2015

Daily Prompt

Putting in the winter garden, prepping so I’ll have them wonderful leafy greens even when the snow comes.

Make art about the ways we prepare for winter.

Daily Prompts All Caught Up! Git Some Beautiful Art On!

Middle of the semester craziness got me behind on updating prompts 🙂 But now we’re all caught up! And don’t forget to check the Writing Prompts page for tons more! 

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Writing Prompts

9/30/2015

Daily Prompt Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin. Make art about Love’s small gestures.

10/1/2015

Daily Prompt 😀 woke up late and so has procrastinated almost everything today 😀 Make art about putting things off 😀

10/2/2015

Daily Prompt “Once I had 1000 roses. Literally 1000 roses.”~John Ciardi Make art about abundance.

10/3/2015

Daily Prompt “They knew they were born to weep”~Pedro Pietri Make art about hard lives.

10/4/2015

Daily Prompt “Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers.”~Delmore Schwartz Make art about dogs. Or children. Or dogs and children.

10/5/2015

Daily Prompt Helping someone today start a new chapter of life.  Make art about new beginnings.

10/6/2015

Daily Prompt “Choose to be kind.”~my mama  Make art about kindness.

10/7/2015

Daily Prompt Working with my students on layers of meaning. Make art that is deliberately layered.

10/8/2015

Daily Prompt “I can hear her through the thin wall, singing”~Patrick Phillips Make art about singing in the distance.

10/9/2015

So many papers to finish grading, so much on the to-do list. Make art about feeling overwhelmed.

10/10/2015

Daily Prompt I practice BuyNothingChristmas, so the holiday work starts early smile emoticon So I’ll be spending the weekend startin to make handmade gifts.  Make art where less is more.

10/11/2015

Daily Prompt  “Three silent women at the kitchen table.”~Anne Carson  Make art about the silence of women.

 

Sometimes the Prompt is Kind

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“Choose to be kind.”~my mama
 
Make art about kindness.
 
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Sometimes What You Miss is the Prompt

9/30/2015

Daily Prompt

Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin.

Make art about Love’s small gestures.

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DailyPrompt Catch-Up

DailyPrompt Catch-Up

9/25/2015

Road trip to visit with my daughter and son-in-law. Early early morning arrival. “What remains for us has always been what’s arriving”~Wayne Miller  Make art about arrival, about what’s arriving.

9/26/2015

Did a little bargaining at the farmer’s market. Haggling is an integral part of the shopping experience in many cultures, and should be considered a game, rather than a battle.  Make art about haggling or bargaining.

9/27/2015

Dreamt I was weaving a flower chain necklace for a child, whose bright laughter I heard from a distance.  Make art about laughter, the catharsis of laughter, the gift of mirth.

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You are the Poem, You are the Song <3

We’re One, but we’re not the same
We get to  Carry each other Carry each other ❤

Sometimes the Equinox is the Prompt :-)

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Happy Autumnal Equinox ❤
 
Make art about balance.

Sometimes the Prompt is for My Son’s Birthday

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9/20/2015
 
Made my son birthday breakfast 🙂 He turned 27 today, and is both one of my greatest teachers, and my dearest friend. Breakfast involved gravy 🙂 Of course, it did 🙂 We’re Southern ❤ 
 
The rest is gravy.Gravy train. Good gravy!
 
Make art about gravy. Yep. Gravy. 🙂
 
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Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go

Daily Prompt

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran

Make art about releasing control.

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Brave

Daily Prompt
 
Made myself do something I was terrified to do.
 
Make art about that moment you push through fear.
 
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