Daily Prompt
Virginia devastated by multiple tornadoes yesterday. Even growing up near the coast of NC, where hurricanes and tornadoes happened all the time, I’ve not seen destruction like some of what happened here yesterday. Praying for everyone hurt by the storms. Make art about the power of nature.
2/21/2016
Crocus! Tiny purple blooms announcing the slow change of season today in the yard! Make art about the first signs of spring.
2/22/2016
I bought my first ever new car in 2010, and today, I paid that Lil Red Beauty off! I grew up poor, so this is a big deal for me, as someone who has had a very complicated relationship with money. Make art about finishing something. Or about your relationsip with money.
Grunge rubber stamp with text paid in full inside,vector illustration
2/23/2016
Did an exercise with my Baby Poets last night where they did freewrites in response to a scent. Make art about a memory evoked by a particular scent.
This week meet Tasha Cotter, the author of three poetry collections, including Some Churches (Gold Wake Press, 2013), That Bird Your Heart (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and Girl in the Cave (Tree Light Books, 2016). Winner of the 2015 Delphi Poetry Series, her work has appeared in journals such as Contrary Magazine, NANO fiction, and Booth. In 2015 she was named runner-up in the Carnegie Center’s Next Great Writer contest. A contributor to Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press, 2014), The Poets on Growth Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2015), and the 2017 Poet’s Market (Writer’s Digest Books), she makes her home in Lexington, Kentucky where she works in higher education.
Buy Tasha’s books!
http://www.amazon.com/Tasha-Cotter/e/B00AO7JBX6
Read More From Tasha Online:
Superstition Review:
https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/
Interim Magazine:
http://interim.squarespace.com/
storySouth:
http://www.storysouth.com/2015/09/the-passing-of-everyone-else.html
Hear Tasha Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8936wYw-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzbeoTpAQEE
Happy Reading, Y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt
“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”~Kahlil Gibran
Just wrote an email to a famous person on behalf of a former student, not at the student’s request, but just because i believe the student’s amazing and if nothing else, I can put the kid’s name in front of someone, And yeah it’s a totally idealistic shot in the dark, but what the hey? Lifetime mantra: The worst they can do is tell me No, right? And if they do, then I’m no worse off than I was before I asked. 🙂
Survival tip #1 for me? When the moment feels darkest, do something good and loving for someone else. That’s what brings the Light ❤
Make art about healing through generosity.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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