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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Naming & Healing

12/5/2015

I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since 2011, the year both my husband and brother walked on to the next life. This year, I’m finally putting one up again, and covering it with crazy little angels I’ve been handmaking from clay and fabric for several weeks. I’m calling it my Healing Tree. Make art about healing.

12/6/2015

Quiet Sunday morning with my son.  Make art about quiet.

12/7/2015

“So many names, my mother, I’m never sure what to call you.”~Rudy Make art about names, about naming.

Itty Bitty Angel Tree

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Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action

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Mornin news story on how law enforcement s now strongly encouragin people to report it if their neighbors are actin odd or “suspicious.” One of the signs they mentioned is havin lots of deliveries, like from UPS. If this is the standard, I’m screwed. Totalitarianism for breakfast 😦

Because I think we need to….Make art about resistance.

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For the Consideration of Poets

by Haki Madhubuti

where is the poetry of resistance,

the poetry of honorable defiance

unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men,

not respectful of journalist who write

official speak void of educated thought

without double search or sub surface questions

that war talk demands?

where is the poetry of doubt and suspicion

not in the service of the state, bishops and priests,

not in the service of beautiful people and late night promises,

not in the service of influence, incompetence and academic

clown talk?

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art is resistance

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Triumphant

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“Perfect Love casts out fear.”~John 4:18
 
Make art about the triumph of Love.
 
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Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Places

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Dreamt I could fly. Just empty myself out, lift off, and soar.

Make art about flying.

i can fly

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Sometimes You Give the Prompt Away

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It’s Giving Tuesday
Make art about giving, about an act of charity.
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Sometimes the Prompt Has Wings

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“Angels affect us oft”~John Donne

I’m putting up my first Christmas tree since my husband and brother passed on in 2011. So, I’m a little obsessed right now with making angel ornaments.

Make art about angels.

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Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! 24 New Prompts!

Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon!

Good Morning, Bargain Shoppers! No Lines! No Waiting!

24 New Prompts for our Second Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! Now posted!

Join us in the Facebook group, and git that write on, y’all!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512919158978356/

no black friday

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Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! New Prompts! Because We’d Rather Be Makers Than Takers!

Just Say No!!!

Okay beautiful writer and artist people!!!!

Tis the month of that devious dubious insidious awful terrible consumerist debacle–Black Friday!

Last year, I just couldn’t stand it anymore, so I started a weekend writing challenge group on Facebook to do my own little bit to fight back against the ickiness of Black Friday shopping! Let’s write instead!

Here’s the FB group, now up to almost 300 people!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512919158978356/

Join us to Celebrate the First Year Anniversary of this Crazy-Fight-the-Man-and-Capitalist-Lunacy Anti-Black-Friday-24 Hour Writing Marathon!

Mark your calendars! November 27, 2015 🙂 

There will be 24 new prompts! 

Write! Paint! Draw! Sing! Dance! Make art! Create rather than consume!

And no crazy crowds around to knock you down, tryin to rip that tiger-striped car cover or bullet juicer from your hands!!!

BECAUSE WE’D RATHER BE WRITING!

 

no black friday

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Sometimes the Prompt Has to Cook For a Bit

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❤ Makin Sweet Potato Pie with my daughter today.

Make art inspired by a family recipe.

‪sweet tater pie 2

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Sometimes the Prompt is in Your Own Hands

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“For she was the maker of the song she sang”~Wallace Stevens
 
Fighting fall depression, I make things to push back the dark, sewing painting, etc.
 
Make art about making, about being a maker.
 
#choosingjoy
sewing-hands

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