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June 19, 2017
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Saying Thank You, Adult Children, & Peace
17 June 2017
Received several thank you emails from my online students today when our class finished. They never understand, I don’t think, how much I have to thank them for ❤
Create a thank you note (written, visual, musical, etc.) to someone else, someone who doesn’t realize how much gratitude your feel for them.
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18 June 2017
My son came home this weekend, to celebrate Father’s Day with me 
Monday Must Read! Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison
How desperately we need Ellison’s wisdom now.
Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison‘s second novel, published posthumously in 1999 as a 368-page condensation of over 2000 pages written by him over a period of forty years. It was originally written without any real organization, and Ellison’s longtime friend, biographer and critic John F. Callahan put the novel together, editing it in the way he thought Ellison would want it to be written.
“Ellison’s literary executor, John Callahan, has now quarried a smaller, more coherent work from all that raw material. Gone are the epic proportions that Ellison so clearly envisioned. Instead, Juneteenth revolves around just two characters: Adam Sunraider, a white, race-baiting New England senator, and Alonzo “Daddy” Hickman, a black Baptist minister who turns out to have a paradoxical (and paternal) relationship to his opposite number. As the book opens, Sunraider is delivering a typically bigoted peroration on the Senate floor when he’s peppered by an assassin’s bullets. Mortally wounded, he summons the elderly Hickman to his bedside. There the two commence a journey into their shared past, which (unlike the rest of 1950s America) represents a true model of racial integration.”
Learn the History of Juneteenth Here
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June 16, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Thanks and Love to the Talented and Generous Teri Lee Kline
16 June 2017
Make art inspired by a song that made you cry, that brought you to real tears.
June 15, 2017
Some Call for Submissions Love <3 Elsewhere: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry,
elsewhere is an online magazine that publishes every two months, publishing prose poetry, flash fiction and non-fiction.
From the elsewhere website:
elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish six writers and one photo quarterly. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we’re hungry.
Prose Poetry
up to 3 pieces of unlineated prose poetry, any length. up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.
Flash Fiction
up to two stories in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.
Nonfiction
up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.
Photography
submit up to 3 photographs for consideration as a cover image in JPG or PNG format. landscape orientation required, original size 3000px x 1700px minimum.
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 All About Some Love and Joy–Gotta Be, In These Dark Days
14 June 2017
Make art about ways of finding (re-finding) your joy.
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15 June 2017
Make art about taking a risk on Love.
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June 13, 2017
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Carnivals, Weeds, and a Fistful of Stars
10 June 2017
Accompanied my daughter and son-in-law today for that GrandPerson’s first trip to a fair.
Make art inspired by a fair, or carnival.
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11 June 2017
Traveling on back roads today, my favorite way to get anywhere.
Make art about back roads, country lanes, two-lane blacktops cutting through nothing but countryside.
12 June 2017
Grading and gardening day.
Make art about pulling weeds, about weeding things out.
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13 June 2017
Dreamt someone I love brought me a gift.
Make art about a fistful of stars.
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June 9, 2017
Friday Call for Submissions Love x 2: Pithead Chapel
Pithead Chapel
Call for Submissions: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Prose Poetry
“Pithead Chapel is a monthly online journal of fiction,
nonfiction, and prose poetry. While many magazines and journals close
during the spring and summer, we’re open year-round.”
Visit www.pitheadchapel.com for detailed submission guidelines.
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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Blink Ink, 50 Word Stories on Outlaws
Blink-Ink Submissions Now Open
Deadline: July 10, 2017
Bob Dylan famously said “To live outside the law you must be honest. I know you always said that you agree.” Do you agree? What else do you know or suspect about outlaws? Outlaws being those who by choice or chance live outside the law.The law of the land or laws unspoken. Tell us what you know about outlaws generally, or about specific outlaws, real or imagine. famous or obscure.
Send stories of approximately 50 words in the body of an email to blinkinkinfo@gmail.com No attachments or bios please.
Submissions open June 1st till July 10th, 2017.
Website: www.blink-ink.org
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Together We Can
9 June 2017
I’m so excited! Going to be entering into a new creative collaboration with a dear friend.
Make art about working with others, about the benefits of collaboration.
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June 8, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 To Bear Witness
8 June 2017
bear witness
to show that something exists or is true —+ to His success bears witness to the value of hard work. Rising ticket sales bear witness to the band’s popularity.
formal : to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something asked to bear witness to the facts She was asked to bear witness at the trial.
Make art about what it means to bear witness.
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