25 March 2017
“All I have is a voice.” ― W.H. Auden
Make art about your voice, losing it, having it silenced, finding your voice, recovering your voice, raising your voice.
26 March 2017
Make art about a past life.
24 March 2017
Many cultures hold sacred meaning for each of the cardinal directions.
Make art about a compass. Or about choosing a direction.
23 March 2017
Make art about what you see in the middle of the night.
21 March 2017
Make art about Love as subversive.
22 March 2017
Make art about fearlessness.
20 March 2017
A recurring dream plays a significant role in the novel I just started.
Make art about what you dream again and again.
18 March 2017
Ten people I love have walked on to the next life since 2007.
Make art about the last time you saw someone, the last conversation, the last words you said.
19 March 2017
Dreamt a maze made of light last night.
Make art about a labyrinth, real or metaphorical.
17 March 2017
Make art about an immigrant story, about the realities, about how America was built on the very backs of the immigrants they revile.
15 March 2017
Make art about restlessness.
16 March 2017
Make art about truth and lies.
14 March 2017
“One person saying Yes Yes and another person saying No No, that’s tension.”-Betsy Cox
Make a list of all the things you’d like to say No to, then make a list of everything you’d like to say Yes to. Make art inspired from these lists.
13 March 2017
I unfriended someone this morning on social media, a woman who leads with her “I’m a Christian” banner, but who daily and consistently posts things that are disparaging to others, about people and groups of people with whom I know personally she has little actual experience. She’s older, and has limited life experience, so I had alternately either ignored her ignorance or had tried, gently, to share my own experiences with the people she judged. Her fear, it seems, runs too deep. But this morning, as she posted multiple things mocking and denigrating millennials, I was just done.
Am I judging her? Maybe. I’ll think on that. Pray on it too. But for now, her persistent fear and judgment of people about whom she is ignorant are not something I want in my life every day.
Make art about judging, about judging through ignorance, or–be brave!–educate yourself on someone you have previously judged.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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