the idea: when walking through a city, keep your eyes open for unexpected city wisdom About a month ago I was making a trek down to Connecticut for my sister’s college graduation. Part of the trip involved a random stop in Hartford thanks to random bus lines. While I was waiting in Hartford for my sister …
the idea: send pins of amethysts to people who can’t be physically present at the wedding but want to be part of it the ideator: Briana Blythe My godsister, Brianna, has been off on incredible travels in Milan becoming a famous opera singer. Because of this, I haven’t seen her since before I went to college, …
the idea: at the expense of some sleep and the understanding of a movie plot, spend an evening exchanging life stories with a new person This is a relatively self-explanatory idea, and one that I just engaged in four over four hours, thus the late post today. But it is also something that I truly enjoy …
the idea: wear my brightest rainbow dress to celebrate DOMA being struck down by the Supreme Court A day that start out like this could only get better, and it did. Between plenty of great pro-gay conversations inspired by this dress, a promising interview, an incredible second meeting of the Somerville Salon, resounding support for the …
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the idea: meet people by casually eavesdropping your way into conversations I went to my first TEDx event today and it was, in a word, fantastic. In fact, it’s hard to know what else to say… I’ll start with the people I met, since that’s my idea for today. Despite, or perhaps because, I am overly …
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the idea: don’t take out student loans If only this idea occurred to me six years ago. (nothing dries up ideas like looking at a insurmountable pile of money you owe)
the idea: have kids write their name using hieroglyphs on thick black paper with white pencil, cut out, whole punch, and put on a string with beads to make into a necklace This art lesson is actually a modification of one that I did in second grade. For that class we met multiple times, rather than …
the idea: put together an event for artists to showcase their work and performers to get up on stage ideator: from the Blue Hill BGCB As tends to happen in the community art world, I was told about the Creativity and Art to Life (I think I’m getting the title right…) event yesterday and ended up …
the idea: spend the longest day of the year at the beach reading incredible books For some people, this may not be a brand new concept, but for me it was truly revolutionary. There are a couple reasons. 1.) I am not good at relaxing. I have so many ideas and they make me so happy …
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the idea: start a blog where people can share what they tell their kids to explain strange/bad/adult things Although I’m not a parent, I am a teacher and have some idea of the strange things that adults come up with to explain adult-concepts or life-truths to children. For example, I used to get disgusting amounts of …