Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Family, and Heartbreak, and Fragility

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 

6/11/2016

Beautiful day with family today.

From “On Family Regathering Seen One Night Through a Window” by George Moor

All flows; the person has no permanence.

The children will grow up, the parents die.

For each precarious present the past tense

Is waiting; all is sort of a lie.

The clean cut fruit in dingy crystal bowls;

The fading chairs; the family sitting down.

For reassurance meet these traveling souls,

Each with an intimate sadness of his own.

Old habits calm. Old stories of old days….

Make art about family.

 

6/12/2016

Just don’t have words. Heartbroken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/13/2016

My son and I found this tiny nest yesterday, tumbled on the grass beneath the Guardian Oak. No babies, wounded or otherwise, in sight, just this miracle of weaving, bits of bark and straw and leaf and string. Inside the tiniest shards of shell left behind, thin and white as paper. I was struck at how delicate—and how strong—it is, kinda like Love.

Make art about the fragility, about the persistent strength, of Love.