Sometimes the Prompt Shifts and Flows
Daily Prompt
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
Make art with deliberate shifts in time.
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Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Us Alone
Daily Prompt
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Make art about solitude, about needing solitude, about the solace in solitude.
Sometimes the Prompt Keeps Us Company
Daily Prompt
Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?
Make art about an imaginary friend.
Sometimes the Day Is the Poem, and It’s Golden <3
Woke up hearing someone singing this, a tenor so golden it surely came from heaven ❤
“You’ll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley. You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold….”
Sometimes the Prompt Rebuilds Us
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“Today I’m building myself/from the bones/of flowers”~Mary Carroll-Hackett
Make art about the self as a seed, a growing thing requiring nurturing, a blossom.
(from a poem that originally appeared in Tar River Poetry, one that will be my book coming out this spring, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press).
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.
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.
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.
We’re Almost There! Prompts, Prompts, & More Prompts!
Just realized this morning that come Friday, I’ll officially reach ONE YEAR of this Daily Prompt Madness! So much fun! Hope you’ve enjoyed it too! Git that creativity on, y’all!
Check out the Daily Prompt Big List here! And please share!
The more beautiful art we put into this crazy world, the better!
https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! A Little Help From Some Friends
So grateful to be blessed with good friends. Both prompts are inspired by the kindness of friends these last few days.
3/1/2016
My wise brother told me, in so many words, to remember that we can’t grasp the river.
Make art about letting it all flow as it will. Or about a river.
3/2/2016
A sweet friend arrived with her tarot deck in hand and offered to give me a reading.
Make art inspired by the tarot.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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