Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Oh the Music
29 March 2020
“If music be the food of love, play on”–Shakespeare
Make art about the power of music, the power of song, of singing, alone or together, in difficult times.
Posts tagged ‘self care’
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Sustaining
25 March 2020
Make art about sustenance, about seeking it, about finding it, about what sustains you.
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Together
23 March 2020
Even though we’re social distancing, we’re not alone. People everywhere are showing so much imagination and commitment to reaching out across the imposed distance.
Make art about coming together, about the strength we have when we come together, about how much more is possible we come together.
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Regular Comfort
22 March 2020
One of the ways I’m coping with self-isolation is by working to keep what I can of my daily and weekly routines.
Waking at the same time I would if going to campus to work, walking the dog at the same times along the same route each day. That quiet cup of coffee in the morning, the slow ease of a glass of red wine at night.
Wednesdays I strip the beds, wash sheets, and put crisp, new bed linens on, with assistance from a particularly ‘helpful’ cat 😀
Saturday mornings I clean and wash the litter boxes, empty out and clean my fridge, mop the hardwood floors, clean the bathroom.
These small acts so much a part of my ‘normal’ weekly schedule, I’m finding, are helping to make the crisis we’re all sharing a bit less overwhelming, providing some balance in a regular, now-that’s-better, way.
“Routine” as a descriptor often gets a bad rap, but right now, it feels a lot like comfort.
Make art about the comfort to be found in routines.
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Growing
21 March 2020
Make art about growing, about growth, especially growing through difficult circumstances.
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Touch
20 March 2020
Make art inspired by the following quote.
“Touch has memory.”– John Keats
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Emergence
19 March 2020
The jonquils in my yard have emerged, blooming like glory. I was struck while outside this morning, this first day of spring, with a kind of surreal awe at the beautiful constancy of this mother planet.
Even as we’re surrounded with fear or panic, which as a species we’ve seen again and again over millennia–famine, war, plague 😦 — even in the darkest days, there is the arrival of beauty.
Make art about what’s emerging.
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Through that Window
17 March 2020
Often we’re too busy to notice the view right in front of us. One of my students, when I asked about what they missed being away from home, softly described the view of the city at night from his bedroom window in what he called ‘the projects where I live.’
“At night,” he said, “the lights go on forever, and every light, I think, is a soul.”
Make art about seeing the world through your window.
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Oh the Possibility!
16 March 2020
This is an in-class exercise I do with my Baby Poets, an attempt to get them to understand the emotional and emblematic power of every day objects.
Make art about one object that represents “possibility” for you.
Restarting the Prompt a Day <3 Since We're Isolating…
14 March 2020
Personal matters and responsibilities had grown to the point that I simply didn’t have the time or energy to keep up with my daily prompts. But now, I think we need art, and creativity, and beautiful distraction, more than ever. So 🙂 here we go again. Let’s start with the obvious. Take care of your beautiful selves ❤
Make art about feeling overwhelmed, about stopping to breathe in the midst of the onslaught, about caring for yourself in spite of the stress.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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