If you had to switch lives with a fictional character for a week, who would you choose?
Do I get to break containment and explore the fictional world they’re in? Because that changes everything…
#dailysnark
Reading, apparently
What’s a skill you consider basic, that most people don’t actually know how to do?
Something is happening to reading skills and it is not good. Not just attention spans, which are declining rapidly, actual comprehension.
As in, not only understanding the words written, but understanding the context, subtext, intertext, and metatext of what you are reading. And knowing where to check if you don’t understand what you just read.
There is so much to reading, and it’s a skill humans really shouldn’t neglect, especially in the young.
Read bedtime stories to the children. And yourself.
Your inner child needs attention as well.
#reading
No rush
Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
More postcards and personal letters. More in-person visits. More long conversations. More hours where “unreachable” is real.
More typewriters, Xerox, fax machines. More quiet evenings and comfortable silences, more of the Old World that disappeared.
No more computers? Time would slow down immediately.
#throwback
Underwater Basket Weaving
What skill would you like to learn?
Can you imagine what an amazing basket weaver you’d have to be to be able to do weave baskets under water?
Not to mention how you’d be an exceptional diver, too, if you can basket weave without diving gear. The lung capacity!
So, you’d be a great diver and you’d be amazing at basket weaving. And wouldn’t that mean the baskets you weave would endure under water? Because they’d have to hold, wouldn’t they?
Wouldn’t that make them especially robust in, say, beach spaces? They’d be sustainable, too, wouldn’t they? No more plastics. 100% organic beach supplies.
Amazing diving skills, incredible dexterity, and sustainable beach supplies. Imagine the possibilities…
#dailysnark
A touch of whimsy
What details of your life could you pay more attention to?
It seems so trivial, but it’s so important: Those moments of simple levity. A treasure.
A little more whimsy. A little more “Just Because.” Why? No reason. Just because.
#mood