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Posts tagged ‘writing prompts’

Sometimes the Prompt is Kind

Daily Prompt
 
“Choose to be kind.”~my mama
 
Make art about kindness.
 
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Sometimes Late Is the Prompt :-)

10/1/2015

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😀 woke up late and so has procrastinated almost everything today 😀 Make art about putting things off 😀

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Sometimes What You Miss is the Prompt

9/30/2015

Daily Prompt

Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin.

Make art about Love’s small gestures.

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Sometimes the Prompt is Detailed in the Instructions :-)

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I’ll give y’all the prompt I gave my Baby Poets last night 🙂

Write a How To piece (poem, story, essay), building something creative and beautiful out of a set of instructions.

I told them if they would send me titles, I’d write one too, using one of their titles, so today, I’ll be writing either How To Walk a Dog or How To Walk Down Stairs.

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DailyPrompt Catch-Up

DailyPrompt Catch-Up

9/25/2015

Road trip to visit with my daughter and son-in-law. Early early morning arrival. “What remains for us has always been what’s arriving”~Wayne Miller  Make art about arrival, about what’s arriving.

9/26/2015

Did a little bargaining at the farmer’s market. Haggling is an integral part of the shopping experience in many cultures, and should be considered a game, rather than a battle.  Make art about haggling or bargaining.

9/27/2015

Dreamt I was weaving a flower chain necklace for a child, whose bright laughter I heard from a distance.  Make art about laughter, the catharsis of laughter, the gift of mirth.

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Sometimes the Equinox is the Prompt :-)

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Happy Autumnal Equinox ❤
 
Make art about balance.

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)

9/21/2015

Daily Prompt missed yesterday 😦 Oops! So make art about a missed opportunity. 🙂

9/22/2015

Daily Prompt  “Aging, I am a stowaway in the hold of my being.”~Stanley Moss  Make art about aging, about the stages of growing older.

 

Opportunity Missed and Taken Green Road Sign and Clouds

Opportunity Missed and Taken Green Road Sign and Clouds

Sometimes the Prompt is for My Son’s Birthday

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9/20/2015
 
Made my son birthday breakfast 🙂 He turned 27 today, and is both one of my greatest teachers, and my dearest friend. Breakfast involved gravy 🙂 Of course, it did 🙂 We’re Southern ❤ 
 
The rest is gravy.Gravy train. Good gravy!
 
Make art about gravy. Yep. Gravy. 🙂
 
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Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go

Daily Prompt

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran

Make art about releasing control.

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Brave

Daily Prompt
 
Made myself do something I was terrified to do.
 
Make art about that moment you push through fear.
 
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