Daily Prompt Love <3 For the March for Science
22 April 2017
I can’t join the March for Science today, so to honor those who march–
Make art inspired by this.
Posts tagged ‘Writing as Resistance’
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Vessels, Relentlessness, and Talk in the Night
17 April 2017
- Vessel (n.)
- c. 1300, “container,” from Old French vessel “container, receptacle, barrel; ship” (12c., Modern French vaisseau) from Late Latin vascellum “small vase or urn,” also “a ship,” alteration of Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas “vessel.” Sense of “ship, boat” is found in English from early 14c. “The association between hollow utensils and boats appears in all languages” [Weekley]. Meaning “canal or duct of the body” (especially for carrying blood) is attested from late 14c.
- Make art about a vessel.
- 18 April 2017
- Make art about something relentless, about relentless emotion.
- 19 April 2017
- Awake until four in the morning last night, me and the deer, and a lone owl in the oak outside the window.
- Make art about a conversations in the night, about how the night talks to you.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Some People Just Need to Fight
16 April 2017
“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.”
– Richard Adams
It’s hard to empathize with the combative life attitude until we look below the surface and see it’s a protective mechanism, meant to combat the anxiety produced from a world perceived as hostile. The need to fight is really just a signal of deep fear.
Make art about the fear driving combative people, or about understanding and forgiving them.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Being Seen
15 April 2017
At some point every semester, I challenge my students to look everyone they meet in the eye, even the strangers they pass, to turn while standing in line and speak to the person behind them, in front of them, to make acknowledging other human beings around them a habit.
One of my current students asked me, sadness softening her young face, why other people won’t, don’t, look at each other, much less look each other in the eyes as they pass. We’re afraid, I told her, of revealing ourselves, of being seen.
Make art about seeing each other, about taking the risk of being seen.
Daily Prompt Love <3 What You Give
14 April 2017
Make art about service, about how the self is found in service to others.
Daily Prompt Love <3 What You See
13 April 2017
Make art about vision, about what you see, or are unable to see.
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.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Family, Ground, and Grief
8 April 2017
First Birthday party today for my grandson!
Make art about the miracles of family.
9 April 2017
Tilling in the summer garden today.
Make art about breaking ground.
10 April 2017
A friend of mine lost ten family members in the recent tragic events in Syria.
Make art about extreme loss, or extreme grief.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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