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.
20 March 2019
“Go back
to the window. Note the crocus
defying expectations”–Joy Ladin
Make art about defying expectation, or about the crocus.
23 February 2019
Make art about what the wind says.
Image by Comfreak on Pixabay
27 June 2017
Manchild’s headed off for a trip to Hawaii with his girlfriend 🙂
Make art about learning something on a long flight.
28 June 2017
I’m reorganizing and rearranging and reshaping my tiny little house in the trees, moving furniture, getting rid of stuff.
Make art about discoveries made while spring cleaning or reorganizing. Or make art about the feeling of newness that comes after a big clean or reorganization, after ‘cleaning house.’
26 April 2017
The rains have stopped and and the hadrwoods have awakened, and the drive home from campus today was a wander through every shade of green. The Guardian Oak is full and bright, and the woods are thickening. I stood with giants, all of us reaching for the sky.
Make art about the greening.
Happy National Poetry Month!
Daily Prompt Time!
spring song
by Lucille Clifton
the green of Jesus
is breaking the ground
and the sweet
smell of delicious Jesus
is opening the house and
the dance of Jesus music
has hold of the air and
the world is turning
in the body of Jesus and
the future is possible
Make art about the body of the planet.
Daily Prompt
The pups and I had all kinds of feathered company on our walk this morning. Put me in mind of one of my mama’s favorite poets, John Greenleaf Whittier:
Two Prompts ‘Cause I’m Sooooo Happy Spring’s Here!
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Dreamt last night I was playing with a little bitty baby bear We tussled and snuggled and giggled and romped. Make art about a baby’s capacity for joy. 🙂 Or about a bear. 🙂
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Make art with the first day of spring, about rebirth.
“So long now I been out in the rain and snow, but Winter’s come and gone, a little bird told me so….” 🙂 ❤ New beginnings, y’all. Letting go of what doesn’t work, moving forward to where Love is ❤
2/21/2016
Crocus! Tiny purple blooms announcing the slow change of season today in the yard! Make art about the first signs of spring.
2/22/2016
I bought my first ever new car in 2010, and today, I paid that Lil Red Beauty off! I grew up poor, so this is a big deal for me, as someone who has had a very complicated relationship with money. Make art about finishing something. Or about your relationsip with money.
Grunge rubber stamp with text paid in full inside,vector illustration
2/23/2016
Did an exercise with my Baby Poets last night where they did freewrites in response to a scent. Make art about a memory evoked by a particular scent.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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