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Creative Challenge 14: Local List

| Mac

Spring is here gang! The spectre of snow dissipating, courses wrapping up, either with whimpers or bangs, and the budding of summer plans.

There’s no better time to start creating a list of local experiences you’d like to take in over the coming months. That’s your challenge! Mine includes authors, libations, shopping, arts and more.

If you start looking around you might be surprised by all that’s out your own backdoor. Be sure to share!

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Local Author – Reading List 

  1. Bill Gaston – The Order of Good Cheer
  2. John Gould – 7 Reasons Not to Be Good 
  3. Carla Funk – Apologetic
  4. Jack Hodgins – A Passion for Narrative  
  5. Yasuko Thanh – Floating Like the Dead
  6. Lorna Crozier – The Book of Marvels

Local Libations

  1. Beaufort Winery
  2. Schramm Potato Vodka 

Local Arts

  1. Art Gallery of Victoria – Traces 
  2. Belfry Season Ticket renewal

Local Groceries

  1. Dan’s Farm 
  2. Root Cellar 

Locally Owned Spots

(in a shrinking downtown core)
  1. Brasserie L’ecole 
  2. Outlooks 
  3. Belmiro’s 
  4. Only Human 
  5. Munro’s Books 
  6. Russell’s Books

There’s my list of local amusements for the summer months ahead – make a list and share!

Creative Challenge: 10 Things You Find Attractive

| Mac

#10thingsthatareattractive has Twitter-verse all a twitter… and I thought it was sufficiently engaging to repurpose for this weeks Creative Challenge. The challenge is to list out and share the top ten things you think are attractive – think about it! Here is my list:

  1. My Wife
  2. Long Legs
  3. Dark Haired Brunettes
  4. Eyes that sparkle
  5. Personality
  6. Laughter
  7. Open Mindedness
  8. Being Genuine
  9. Considerate
  10. Creative

TO-FU’s 29 Ways to Stay Creative

| Mac

Despite this stylish illustrated video being online for about 8 months, being fantastic, and already earning a lot of praise from like minded people I had not seen it before.

I’m pleased to report that I already do most of these things. Even so, I shall be more diligent about ensuring I practice them and cross them off my list. The following three from the list of 29 are definitely the outliers in terms of my lack of adoption.

7 – Sing in the shower

I’m pretty noisy in the shower… it may be possible to classify it as some sort of gregorian chant but that might be pushing the boundaries a little… I must do better.

21 – Break the rules

I tend to be a rule follower most of the time. However I did do that video mashup of Sabrina and Lord of the Rings… maybe that counts?

23 – Read a Page of the Dictionary

This is an excellent idea. I’m going to read one page of the dictionary every night before bed.

Are you doing any of these things? Any ones you are not currently doing that you are brave enough to try?

This is a fantastic video, thank you TO-FU.