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Daily Prompt Love <3 Facing the Darkness

21 November 2016

Make art about facing the darkness, even, especially our own. 

our-own-darkness

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 One Body, Many Parts

12 There is one body, but it has many parts. But all its many parts make up one body…13 We were all baptized by one Holy Spirit. And so we are formed into one body. It didn’t matter whether we were Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free people. We were all given the same Spirit to drink. 14 So the body is not made up of just one part. It has many parts.

15 Suppose the foot says, “I am not a hand. So I don’t belong to the body.” By saying this, it cannot stop being part of the body. 16 And suppose the ear says, “I am not an eye. So I don’t belong to the body.” By saying this, it cannot stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell? 18 God has placed each part in the body just as he wanted it to be. 19 If all the parts were the same, how could there be a body?20 As it is, there are many parts. But there is only one body.

21 The eye can’t say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 In fact, it is just the opposite. The parts of the body that seem to be weaker are the ones we can’t do without. 23 The parts that we think are less important we treat with special honor.–1 Corinthians 12:12-23 New International Reader’s Version (NIRV)

Make art about Connectedness, the inescapability of how we are all connected.

one-body-many-parts

 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Janus at the Gate

11/19/2016

Dreamt a conversation with a friend last night about the ancient Roman god Janus. In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. 

Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The doors of his temple were open in time of war, and closed to mark the peace. As a god of transitions, he had functions pertaining to birth and to journeys and exchange, and is associated with progression of past to future, of one condition to another, of one vision to another, and of one universe to another.

Make art about Janus, or about gateways, doorways, transitions from past to future, from one world to another. 

janus-two-face

Daily Prompt Love <3 No Irish Need Apply

11/18/2016

Thinking on how it wasn’t all that long ago that it was my Irish ancestors that many people wanted out of the country, saw as less than human, thought they were taking their jobs, hated for their faith and their culture. 

Make art about fear and exclusion. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 What We Need to Hear

11/17/2016

I called my beloved brother, my late husband’s brother, for advice early yesterday, and in the way he has that I love and respect and admire and need so much, he started by saying, “You may not like the advice I have to give. You might get mad at me.”

I laughed, and said, “I’m not gonna get mad. That’s why I called you.” 

Later last night I texted him Thank you. He called and asked, “So did my cantankerous advice work out?”

I laughed again, and said, “Sure did. Thank you so much.”

He said, “Don’t thank me. It’s you. All you. Just sometimes, even when we know what’s right, what we need to do, we just need someone else to say it, to say what’s hard to hear.” 

Yep. 

Make art about hearing hard truths. 

uncomfrotable-truths

Daily Prompt Love <3

11/16/2016

Make art about focus, about losing focus, about regaining focus, about staying focused. 

stay-focused

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Convergence

11/15/2016

“There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges. In this moment all is available.”-Osho

Make art about convergence. 

convergence-t2

Daily Prompt Love <3 Dissent

11/14/2016

dissent (v.)

early 15c., from Latin dissentire “differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel,” from dis- “differently” (see dis-) + sentire “to feel, think” (see sense (n.)).

Related: Dissenteddissenting. The noun is 1580s, from the verb.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. [Jacob Bronowski “Science and Human Values,” 1956] 

Make art about dissent. 

dissent

Daily Prompt Love <3 Our Work

11/13/2016

Make art about our work, about what you think our work is, about what work means now. 

work

One More Call for Submissions: Tenemos Deadline Nov 18. Submission Fee

Temenos Fall Call for Submissions: Skin Suits & Bare Bones

Deadline: November 18, 2016

 

We are born into a society that judges our skins, our genders, and our love lives. This Fall, Temenos asks you to expose the skeletons in your closets to share the deep dark of all our selves. We want to know: what are your bones made of—steel, or sand? The best submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art and photography will be accepted.

Fee for submission is $4.

Submission deadline is Friday, November 18th, 2016.

See temenosjournal.com/index.php/submit for more information.

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