Creativity Sparks

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I went to a book club a little while ago. It was full of strangers. I’ve never, in my life, done that before. We had an amazing conversation and I left completely creatively energized. It wasn’t just that I was using my critical thinking skills for the first time in months, but that I was trying something new. I realized that I needed to do lots more of this sort of thing--  not in the interest of 'self improvement' but simply for the sake of experience. For fostering creativity. For enjoying life. So I came up with a list of “Creativity Sparks” (i.e. stuff I’ve never done before but am going to try in  order to keep  my brain excited and to experience new things) Hey if Stephen Fry can get pierced, I can find things I've never done!

I’m not calling it a ‘bucket list’ because I don’t care if I do or don’t do these before I die. Dying is not the point. Some are little things, some are big life altering things. Some are free and some make me thankful I have no kids in need of a college education. 

I think I know which one I’ll start with, but I’m not sure. I don’t even know how closely I’ll be keeping track, hell I don’t even know how many items are on this list! (Just counted... 64) Here I go. Here’s to creativity!

Ride in a hot air balloon
See the northern lights
Take a sailing lesson
Write a book
Have a conversation in a language other than english
Send a message in a bottle.
Ride a camel (or elephant) etc
Take a ballroom dance class
Learn to play a musical instrument
Take a singing lesson
Make a complete fool of myself
Eat at the French Laundry
Learn to juggle
Learn to drive a stick shift
Spend three months getting my body into athletic shape
Go fishing and eat my catch
Ride a motorcycle
Work on a farm for a day
Learn a new skill (no idea what yet)
Make soup dumplings
Run a 5k (not walk)
Find a food I've never eaten and eat it
Go to a jazz show
Play a game of ice hockey
Go horseback riding along the beach
Learn to ski
Take a fencing lesson
Go on a helicopter ride
Sleep overnight on a train
Collect fresh chicken eggs from a nest
Go to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Try a new restaurant in San Francisco
See the Parthenon in Greece
Go to Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Read Moby dick
Visit the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy
Spend an afternoon in El Prado in Madrid, Spain
See "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso at the Museo Reina Sofia
Spend a week in Bora Bora
Attend a Japanese tea ceremony
Learn to sculpt
Learn how to perform a magic trick
Learn to knit one thing
Make cheese
Watch lawrence of Arabia
Face a fear (not sure which one)
Become financially literate
Go to an auction at Christie's or Sotheby's
Sleep in a castle
Create a well-stocked pantry
Go to a yoga class by myself
Become an 'expert' at something
Write an article and have it published
Register for NaNoWriMo and write a novel in one month
Do NaBloPoMo for one month
Write a cookbook
Audition for something
Travel to another city to go to a concert/show (performer TBD)
Try fugu
Get a tarot card reading
Get hypnotized (for what I have no idea)
Eat something I've grown
Travel solo (even a day trip)
Get rid of 100 of my possessions

 

So what about you? You have a list? 

EB

Comments

[Victoria]

Great list.

(Except for Moby Dick.)

[EB]

Hahahaha. What's wrong with Melville?

[lunch at 11:30]

this list is adorable. "make a fool of myself." hmm. i've probably done that at least a few times. (perhaps even in front of a #1 nytimes bestselling author?? ;)

yeah i think it would take more than just three months for me to get into shape. i played the french horn for five years in elementary/middle school but stopped bc while i could reach the notes, i couldn't actually *read* them. also i think if i touched a fish that i caught, i wouldn't be able to eat it. moby dick = cliff notes?? :)

p.s. 100 of your possessions is a lot! maybe you could just do, like, 25?

xo!

[EB]

No! You're adorable! Ok so yes I've made a fool of myself... but neve consciously you know? 3 months is more like to be in the best shape I could be in in 3 months (while still boozing and eating red meat). I played the cello in middle school (too uncool to even be a band geek! I was an orchestra geek!) I hear ya on the fish. Moby Dick... gotta read it. No notes. 100 possessions is nothing! I have boxes of crap still packed from when I moved (2 YEARS ago!) One box prolly has 20 pairs of shoes. Boom! 40 possessions!

[lunch at 11:30]

HAH! just read your comment back. girl, you gotta LOTTA shoes!!!

p.s. ORCHESTRA GEEK! "this one time, at...orchestra camp..." nope! doesn't work ;)

[Modern Bedroom]

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