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*** a selection for your inspiration ***In 2021, Creative Quests kicked off with four themes for participants to explore. In any of the themed months, you're asked to keep three lists: Questions, Firsts, Illuminations.
The List of Firsts tracks things you did during the month that you’ve never done before—no matter how large or small. The list is the perfect way to embrace a beginner's mind. Here's an (unedited) selection from 2021 participants:
✍🏻 Poetry
My mum read me her favorite poem over zoom
Sent my friends a poem that reminded me of our friendship
Climbed and perched myself in a tree as a result of a poem I wrote
Cried when I saw a bud on a shrub because I finally understood why people went on and on about spring in poetry
Closing my eyes more when listening to poetry. Trying to let the ideas sink deeper and notice how/if my body reacts to certain parts.
💃🏼 Movement
Danced naked
Ice plunged in the river!
Snowstands (handstands in the snow)
Sang with a group of people i now call friends while riding a bike
Invented Pomodoro method combined with throwing balloons and dancing
🌈 Color/Colour
Stopped wearing black (probably forever)
Going on color photo safaris within my home
Looked at webpages in Chrome in colour blind mode
Making an illustration of a dream
Colouring pasta. Then coloring cauliflower mash. Then coloring bread. Then coloring oatmeal
🏡 Home
Collaborated on a Spotify playlist
Wrote out my cosmic address!
Went to the museum of home
Went to a book shop to find books about home
Made a map of what home has meant through the ages