I've been thinking alot about fun. What is fun to me? What is fun to others? How can we create fun? There is forced fun like a laugh track on a situation comedy and there is spontaneous fun that occurs without any planning whatsoever. I prefer the more spontaneous type of fun. The fun that doesn't cost anything. The fun that doesn't require an invitation or a preface. A fun that feels more like a tickle. I've also been thinking about how I can make fun for others. So, over the last few weeks I've been ruminating on ways to create "impromptu fun zones". I'm mainly thinking of doing these in places that aren't any fun at all. Parking garages, waiting rooms, elevators, cemeteries, etc.. Stay tuned. More ideas ahead.
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Things I've been enjoying: Five kinds of lettuce, Vietnamese coriander, and lemon verbena from the garden
Beckett's new voices (ba ba, da da, blthzzzx)
Beckett's new clap
Long bouts of sunshine
Thunderstorms (they don't happen often in Portland)
Collecting my thoughts on scrap paper
Walks with Beckett in the late afternoon sun
Letters to grandma
Singing myself to work each morning as part of my "Musical for and Average Day"
Singing while pumping milk at work for the same reason
Lena Dunham's Girls
MadMen
Documentaries and articles about honey bees
Slow poured coffee in my hefty red mug
The Wind in the Willows
JF
"People live one earth, and animals and birds: and fish live in the sea, but we do not defeat the sea, for we are driven back to the sky, or we stay, and become what we have tried to conquer, remembering nothing except our new flowing in and out, in and out, sighing for one place, drawn to another, wild with promises to white birds and bright red fish and beaches abandoned then longed for." - Janet Frame (Snowman Snowman)