Sometimes the Prompt Really Haunts You
Daily Prompt
Working on this chapbook of ghost poems.
Make art about a haunting.
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First Daily Prompt of 2016 :-) Sometimes the Prompt Takes Wing
Daily Prompt — First one for 2016!
Woke to this hawk calling outside the bedroom window, then he followed me and the dogs on our walk.
Make art about hawks.
My New Year’s Wish For You <3 My Hope For Us All
There is an old story of a bear who goes into her den to dream the world into being during the winter. She dreams of deer, and pine, of clear water, sweet berries, and buffalo. She creates the world anew, each being, entire ecosystems, during the course of each winter, with her dreams. When she emerges into the green of spring, trailed by her cubs, she celebrates and is celebrated by all the creatures of the earth.
Centuries ago Aristotle said, “The soul cannot think without pictures. The reasoning mind thinks in the form of images… As the mind determines the objects it should pursue or avoid in terms of these images, even in the absence of sensation, it is stimulated to action when occupied with them.”
More recently, Denis Watley, a noted psychologist, brought attention again to this idea through The Secret.
We too can dream our world into being.
Visualization is similar to daydreaming. In both processes you create mental images; the difference between visualization and daydreaming is intention. Daydreaming allows your mind to wander, but when you visualize and focus on something specific, you are putting intention, all your beautiful power as a sacred soul, behind it.
It is the intention that creates the energy that creates the attraction. The attraction starts the action that produces the manifestation.
Ancient cultures understood this well. The bear, with its ability to seemingly die in winter and remerge in spring with new life, has long symbolized transformation, and the transformative power of dreams. Understanding the bear’s gifts, we have looked to this creature as teacher and guide and healer. These connections held true for ancient cultures around the world – anywhere people and bears lived together.
My New Year’s wish for all of you is that you come to know how beautiful and sacred and powerful you truly are, how powerful your dreams, and that in this coming year, you dream your perfect spring into being, that we all do. May 2016, for everyone, be filled with peace, and joy, and Love–always always Love ❤
xo
Mary
The Last Daily Prompt of 2015 :-) Happy New Year, Y’all!
Daily Prompt
“a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year”~Bei Dao
Make art envisioning the new year.
(The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera)
Sometimes the Prompt Is a Change
Daily Prompt
“In the space between chaos and shape there is another chance.”~Jeannette Winterson
Make art about rising to the challenge of change.
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.
Sometimes The Prompt Shows the Way
Daily Prompt
Loving the lights this gray rainy day.
Make art about Light.
#writingprompt #bethelight #poetry #nonfiction #fiction #wordsmatter
Sometimes the Prompt’s Right In Your Own Hands
Daily Prompt
“I thought of happiness, how it is woven
Out of the silence in the empty house each day
And how it is not sudden and it is not given
But is creation itself like the growth of a tree….”~May Sarton
Make art about making your own happiness.
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
Sometimes the Prompt Is Left Behind For You
Daily Prompt
Just drafted a poem called The Words Mama Left Me.
Make art about inheritance.
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