Daily Prompt Love x 2
13 October 2017
Make art about superstition.
14 October 2017
My youngest turns twenty-three today. Happy Birthday, Dean!
Make art about youngest children.
Posts tagged ‘sons’
Daily Prompt Love <3 Teacher
20 September 2017
My son’s 29th birthday is today. He has, since we met, proven to be one of my best friends, a wise, funny, compassionate, loving child who grew into a wise, funny, compassionate, loving man. He has been and remains one of my greatest teachers.
Make art about your teachers.
All grown up with his mini-me, his nephew Max
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Uncles & Curiosity
4 March 2017
In many cultures, the teaching of heritage and cultural practices is carried out by members of the extended family, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. In certain cultures, this relationship and teaching is formally recognized, and in cultures with matrilineal descent is referred to as the avunculate, sometimes called avunculism or avuncularism, a social institution where a special relationship exists between an uncle and his sisters’ children. Several Native American tribes practice a form of this, where the uncle is responsible for teaching the children social values and proper behavior while inheritance and ancestry is reckoned through the mother’s family alone. Modern day influences have somewhat but not completely erased this tradition.
Thinking on this especially today, as I watch my sons interact with their sister’s baby son, my GrandPerson Max <3. Thinking on it too, as it’s the weekend of my lovely daughter’s birthday, and my own brother, Bill, now gone on to the next life, was present and there for her literally from the moment she first drew breath. He remained a constant source of Love and education for all of my kids until he left us. My daughter Lia couldn’t say ‘Uncle Bill’ when she was small; it came out ‘Opie Gill.’ So now her brothers are not just ‘Uncles’ to her son, but ‘Opies.” Important job they have ❤ And I have no doubt they’ll honor it well.
Make art about extended family, about aunts, or uncles, about those elders from whom we learn our culture.
5 March 2017
Spent the day with my sons, two wise and funny young men. The two things that impress me about both of them are: 1) their shared sense of honor, and 2) their shared insatiable curiosity. They are both always–always–learning something new, or seeking to learn something new, or thinking about how they can learn something new.
Make art about learning, about loving to learn, about the magic and mystery of curiosity.
Daily Prompt <3 On Boys and Men
8 June 2016
This was one of my mama’s top favorite poems. I have so many memories of her reciting it, again and again. Thinking a lot lately about the sons I’ve raised, about the young men I teach, in a culture where there’s so little guidance, so many confusing messages, on what it means to be a man.
Make art about boys, or about what it means to be a man.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Fingerpaint and Sons and Resistance :-)
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂 My sons were home!
10/24/2015
Teaching a workshop on Creative Meditation Techniques today, which will include painting with our fingers! 🙂 Make art about fingerpaint–or–go on–you know you wanta!–break out the paints yourself and get a lil fingerpainting on!
10/25/2015
Both my sons home today. They make me laugh like no one else. Make art about sons.
10/26/2015
“You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think.”~Laura Oliver Make art about resistance.
Sometimes the Prompt is an Unbelievable Gift :-) Happy Birthday to My Son
10/14/2015
Daily Prompt
My youngest son, Dean, has a birthday today 🙂 Twenty-one years ago, my greatest teacher was born 🙂 He arrived earlier than expected, a laid back observer of the universe even as he rested swaddled in my arms 🙂 I am so awed by the man he is, smart, funny, loving, with the courage to take on his own lessons, and his Baby Buddha ability to release what should be let go. 🙂 “Chill, Mom, It’s all gonna be okay.”
Make art about the teachers in your life
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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