Hello and welcome to all members, new and old!

Group Mews:

We still need a mod for the Nonfiction: Biographies and Self-Expression gallery!

If you would be interested in joining the team of moderators, comment here or note kerrybush42! Modding involves approving/declining submissions to your gallery and selecting a piece each month for the new end-of-month feature, detailed below.

Moderator perks: Being part of a STELLAR team of moderators/admins and having a say in what goes on in the group in terms of contests, collaborations, etc.!

We're going to be instituting an end-of-month feature very soon!

Thanks to an idea from new mod thousand-streams, at the beginning of next month, we're going to be featuring one stellar piece from each gallery as selected by the respective gallery mods. Since they're staff picks, these pieces will go in the Featured folder! So be sure to keep an eye out for that, and keep submitting your best!

DeviantArt Mews:

"New Beginnings" Contest

MagicalJoey and her group Understood-Accepted are hosting a contest on new beginnings and they are looking for people to sign up as participants! Check it out here:

New Year - New Contest - Judging Has Commenced!
Our "Creed"
Hello, you've reached a quiet place, a place where you can bare your heart or simply share your soul. We are all like you - problems and pain haunt and hurt us as they do you. We don't all have the same things that consume us, but still we understand your ghosts and the trouble you face daily hurt you deeply, as ours do to us. We know pain. We try help you face it. If you remember one thing about this place, remember this: No matter what you are living or have lived through, you are accepted.
YOU. ARE. ACCEPTED

Judging is almost completed, hold on to your socks and pull your hats up people
Welcome to Understood-Accepted's




The concept of this contest was stolen from Amarantheans , who has held

Members: If you hear about anything awesome going on around DA (from contests to collaborations to opportunities), we would love to promote it! Feel free to note me or comment here and I'll include it in the next weekly journal.

Cool Cat of the Week:

HabaneroBob

Congrats to HabaneroBob for being our submitter of the week!  They submitted their piece "What Do You Think?" and was chosen via random.org to be featured in this journal. Check out some of their awesome work here, and be sure to submit to our galleries for your chance to be featured next week!

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Weekly Prompt:

the shot heard 'round the world

Submit your responses to this prompt to this gallery so I can feature them in next week's journal! Last week's prompt was "marching to the promised land" and here are the responses:

prompted hindsightit matters not 'tween the twain, isogete or exegete;
prophecy can be usurped, given meanings obsolete.
marching to the promised land is to author our defeat.
shades of truth
(vesica piscis)
overlap   marching in the light of Godwe march for justice and
peace and
women and
men and 
God
who
doesn't want us to be
silent
 
That's all from me for this week!

 
Kerry