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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Best Revenge

19 June 2019 

When I was twelve or thirteen, a friend’s father, a somewhat pompous college professor, the kind who insisted on being addressed as Doctor…. told me I would never amount to anything. 

As I say my gratitude prayers for today, I include him, that adult who was obviously so damaged or insecure that he felt compelled to strike out at a child. I took what he said as a challenge, a dare, a call to my Aries spirit to not only succeed, but to also surpass not only his poor expectations, but the much greater ones I already had for myself then. 

Make art about success being the best revenge.

best revenge

Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Defying Expectation

20 March 2019 

“Go back
to the window. Note the crocus
defying expectations”–Joy Ladin

Make art about defying expectation, or about the crocus. 

crocus

 

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Daily Prompt Love x 2 <3 Release & Tradition

30 December 2017

“He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.”-Annie Dillard

Make art about release, about releasing something painful, or something beautiful.

release

31 December 2017

Make art inspired by an interesting New Year’s tradition.

25 Strangest New Year’s Traditions From Around The World by David Pegg

In Denmark they save all of their unused dishes and plates until the 31st of December when they affectionately shatter them against the doors of all their friends and family.

In Ecuador they celebrate the New Year by burning paper filled scarecrows at midnight. They also burn photographs from the last year. All in the name of good fortune.

In Romania they throw their spare coins into the river to get good luck.

In Scotland the first person to cross the threshold of a home in the new year should carry a gift for good luck, perhaps a coin, bread, salt, coal, evergreen, and/or a drink (usually whiskey).

first foot

 

 

 

 

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, healing, Love, nonfiction, One Love, peace, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 7 New Prompts!

2 October 2017

Make art about the fear behind hate.

fear behind hate

3 October 2017

Make art about the soundtrack of your life.

tom petty

4 October 2017

Make art about losing your grasp.

losing grasp

5 October 2017

Make art about being let down.

disappoitnment

6 October 2017

Make art about what’s out of place.

out of place

7 October 20017

Make art about coming together.

come together

8 October 2017

Make art about remembering what you need.

what you need

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Daily Prompt Love <3 You Have a Right To

11 April 2017

One of the greatest gifts I’ve received in this life was a single statement. A wise and caring man said to me, “You know, you have a right to peace of mind.”

The simplicity of what he said stunned me in that moment. It also revealed to me how I, for too many reasons to list, more often than not, stood in my own way toward achieving that peace.

Had a wonderful and heartbreaking conversation with my students last night about just this thing, about what keeps them from ‘peace of mind.’  Worries and expectations, the fears they hold for the future, their own and the future of our planet.  We talked about articulating these barriers, and about releasing them. 

Make art about peace of mind. 

peace of mind

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2017 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 What That Darkness Is

1/10/2017

“…darkness is but a ghost of an idea, the least

remembered, most estranged prayer, and your fear

but a lingering, limbic fear torn from shreds of forgotten years.”
 
–Alice B. Fogel

 

Make art about forgiving the darkness. 

darkness-light-605x391

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Sometimes You Let the Prompt Go

Daily Prompt
 
Letting em go 🙂
 
Make art about releasing expectations.
 
expectation

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