30 July 2016
Finally got started on my summer canning.
Make art about preserving something.
31 July 2016
“We move to find what we cannot see”~David Wagoner
Make art about forms of blindness.
1 August 2016
Earth. Air. Fire. Water.
Make art about an elemental force.
29 July 2016
Mama always said I came into the world asking forgiveness instead of permission.
Make art about fearless women.
26 July 2016
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ― Edith Wharton
Make art about a window opening.
27 July 2016
“Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”―Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Make art about what you thirst for.
28 July 2016
Make art about falling in Love with the world, even—especially–when it seems to be at its most heartbreaking, when it seems too difficult to Love.
24 July 2016
Liminal (adj.)
“of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1884, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality.
Definition: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
Make art about being on a threshold, being in a liminal space.
25 July 2016
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”~John Donne
Make art about being your own palace, or about the world as a jail.
23 July 2016
Reading one of my favorite writers this morning, Linda Hogan. If only we all could listen in the miraculous way she does.
“When the body wishes to speak, she will”~Linda Hogan
Make art about what the body has to say.
7/19/2016
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”~John Kennedy
Make art about revolution.
7/20/2016
When the world becomes too much, I make things, usually for other people. So this week I’m sewing old fashioned cloth dolls to send to the children’s unit at the Massey Cancer Center.
Make art about when the world becomes too much.
7/21/2016
In the way I was taught, there are four fundamental types of dreams: waking life dreams; visitation dreams; teaching dreams; and traveling dreams.
Make art about one of these types of dreams.
Get that creativity flowing!
https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
7/16/2016
“Late, I have come to a parched land/doubting my gift, if gift I have,/the inspiration of water”~Dannie Abse
Make art about the inspiration of water.
7/17/2016
“Poor dear son, though you were not my son, I felt to love you as a son, what short time I saw you sick & dying here—“~Walt Whitman (letter to Erastus Haskell’s parents)
Make art about how they are all our sons.
7/18/2016
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”~Mother Teresa
Make art about the open heart.
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