Kevin’s Meandering Mind

The prompt was to write a wish for a place near you.

This response is to a prompt via Write Out about how we observe the world.

Peace (in the sky), Kevin

U2 remains one of my favorite bands, and they keep putting out good music!

The prompt for the Daily Create connects to World Food Day.

I started listening to this radio program — Radio Paradise — a few years ago, and come and go, but I love that it was built to counter the algorithms of most music apps and platforms.

Peace (on the surface), Kevin

I missed the Daily Create the other day, which was to play with Mondrian pattern artwork.

via GIPHY The Daily Create had us looking at an archive of British advertising and the Ghost Signs archives caught my eye.

Austin Kleon has long been on my list of folks to follow for advice and inspiration.

via GIPHY The Daily Create asked us to consider Flat Earth, which led to me to a Flat Earth map site, and then I used Giphy to represent digging a hole in a Flat Earth.

We used this interesting site — https://typeincube.com/ — for the Daily Create.

Peace (on the path), Kevin

A prompt for the Daily Create about paper airplanes brought me back to this very old digital story: A Is For Airplanes.

I was home from a long hike in the wood with my dog yesterday when the phrase “three miles from nowhere” began to dance around in my head.

Somewhere, I stumbled on the Canyon Groove site, that allows you to make music with the contours of various mountains.

This is from a one word prompt for the morning: mushrooms.

via GIPHY The Daily Create had us looking at text about the Mill at Willington, and the ghost stories that come with it.

We used a random word generator for the Daily Create this morning, and then used that word (mine was “mosquito”) to build a haiku or small poem.

Dragonflies are fascinating creatures.

I guess Ladybird books were once a thing but I don’t remember seeing them in America, so I suppose it’s more Great Britain and Europe.

Peace (in the light), Kevin

Our prompt for the Daily Create was to share a sunrise or sunset photo or artwork.

I had stumbled on the Air Theremin site at some point and shared it with the DS106 community for today’s Daily Create.

Peace (falling), Kevin

The prompt for the Daily Create was to find an accidental picture.

The prompt was to create a gif flag for the Daily Create.

Beneath the brick I hoped would pause the bees from their hole, the yard’s still a-buzz with yellow-jackets This poem is in the form of a Gogyohka, a five line phrase poem, for Open Write.

I have many muses singing along family lines: my father’s drums – my mother’s voice – my brother’s guitar – my grandmother’s stories – every song is wrapped up tight inside the threads of others This poem is from a prompt from Open Write about legacy and…

Peace (at the library), Kevin

I’m getting back to song: swimming the rhythm of words again, replacing runs and phrases like kayaks loose on the current, playing each verse in reverse to rediscover the chorus, ideas are the trees in this forest in which something near true arises, anew…

The prompt at the Daily Create had us making a motivational poster from something we hear in the world.

We finger the aged picture, linger a little on the moment of the farmhouse in the field at the top of hill where now our whole neighborhood sits; it all fits — the history of a place is rooted in the remembering, the rocks in the soil wending their way fo…

The Daily Create suggested adding a bird to an image.

It’s Spock, stuck, at the top of Mount Everest thinking, as always, he’s surely the cleverest – Spock dreams a baton powers the radio on and classically conducts his way home, forever-est My Daily Create prompt from the Creative Prompt Machine: Write a li…

I made this for a Daily Create prompt the other day.

Peace (on the canvas of chaos), Kevin

Peace (on the beach), Kevin

Our small city hosts an Arts Night Out once a month.

This poem comes from a morning prompt phrase: waning moon.

A prompt about trains had me revisiting this poem.

This is for the Daily Create.

Peace (in reflection), Kevin

Our prompt this morning at the Daily Create was to create something that celebrates the poet/writer Wendell Berry, who just passed away.

Both of these are from single word prompts for morning poetry writing.

The prompt at the Daily Create was to read through a list of new words and phrases that represent frustrations of the modern technological world and make something.

Peace (slow mallet roll), Kevin

The great poet, writer, thinker passed away this week.

I am hard-pressed to describe the experience of reading Lauren Redniss’ Thunder & Lightning (Weather Past, Present, Future).