"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 ‘learning’

Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Through that Window

17 March 2020

Often we’re too busy to notice the view right in front of us. One of my students, when I asked about what they missed being away from home, softly described the view of the city at night from his bedroom window in what he called ‘the projects where I live.’ 

“At night,” he said, “the lights go on forever, and every light, I think, is a soul.” 

Make art about seeing the world through your window. 

space window

 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Reach

8 May 2019 

Make art about what you’re reaching for. 

reaching

Daily Prompt Love <3 That Step

6 March 2019 

Make art about the next step. 

next step

Daily Prompt Love <3 Burning Building

20 February 2019 

“you say love is a burning building: then run in:”–JP Dancing Bear

Make art about that burning building. 

Dean burning

Daily Prompt Love <3 It's Okay to Ask

19 February 2019 

Took me a long time, a lifetime, to learn to do this.

Make art about asking for help. 

help hand

Daily Prompt Love <3 Love at the Door

14 February 2019

Happy Valentine’s Day ❤ 

The great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has written beautifully about why learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves. 

Make art about learning to love yourself. 

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Love After Love

Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.


 

Daily Prompt Love <3 On Coming Back

4 February 2019 

For a number of reasons, over the last eighteen months, I found myself unable to keep up my daily prompts. But I’m back for another try. 

Make art about coming back. 

bees come back

Daily Prompt Love x 2 <3 Trains & Lessons

9 January 2018

Recurrent dream about a train trip, in the 1800s, traveling by train with someone I love, but in another time, another life.

Make art about trains, about riding a train, about the song of a train whistle.

train

10 January 2018

The lessons never end until we leave the body.

Make art about a lesson learned recently.

lesson

Sometimes The Day Is the Poem

“And now we’re learning that when we let it go, it overflows….” ❤

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Healing, Exits, & Wisdom From Reverend Barber

2 July 2017

Make art about natural healing.

natural healing

3 July 2017

Make art about your exit strategy.

exit plan

4 July 2017

Make art inspired by this quote from the Reverend Dr. William Barber, II

rev barber

 

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