December 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
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Day 9 - Go To Church
The Quest: Go visit a church service and see what it feels like.
I haven’t been to a Sunday church service since I was a little kid. I decided to check out the Unitarian Universalist church in Vancouver. Unitarian Universalist is what you get if you take one of those quizzes about which religion you should follow and you happen to not have any real ideas of what’s out there. One of...
Day 8 - Struggle Physically
The Quest: Try to keep going for a little while past your comfort zone.
I fell off my bike on the way back from Victoria and still had 25Km to go. Normally I’d have tried to catch a bus or find some other solution but I decided to tough out the scraped knee. It wasn’t bad at all!
Things I observed:
Always, always bring polysporin or another anti-biotic and bandades!
Always, always...
Day 7 - Go on a Shamanic Journey
The Quest: Try going on a shamanic journey and see what you observe.
I took a workshop in Victoria on shamanism. Turns out I’m pretty bad at it. Thank goodness someone brought back my power animal for me or I’d be without one!
Day 6 - Do a Tarot Reading
The Quest: Try doing a tarot card reading and see what you observe.
I first read Tarot cards when I was about 8 years old. While I was in Victoria I did it again for the first time in years.
Day 5 - Travel Solo
The Quest: Go on a short trip by yourself that involves some physical and mental challenges.
I traveled on my own in the past but in the past fifteen years I’ve always been traveling either with my wife or with other people. Basically, any complicated decisions or planning have always been handled by someone else and the limits of the challenges have always been defined by what other people...
Day 4 - Get Accupuncture
Quest: Get an alternative therapy treatment such as acupuncture and see if it’s as bad as you feared.
Being someone who doesn’t like needles (mind you, who does like needles?) I’ve never had acupuncture before. So when I went to the physiotherapist and he asked if he could jab me with some needles to release pressure in my shoulder I decided that would be my cool thing of the...
Day 3.5 - Take A Class That Scares You
The Quest: Attend a class in something that makes you a little uncomfortable. Be open and positive throughout the experience.
I really don’t like yoga. I’m not very flexible in my hamstrings and I’ve never been very comfortable with static poses. To top it off, I get irritated by people talking about energy, chakras, chi, and chanting. So going to a ninety-minute yoga class...
Day 3 - Write To Someone Famous
The Quest: Write to someone famous or that you admire, tell them why you admire them, and ask them to write back.
I don’t think I’ve ever a fan letter in my life. It always seems a bit gauche and it’s hard to imagine it having much meaning. But recently I’ve been trying to track down a copy of a book called “Bard V - Felimid’s Homecoming” by Australian...
Day 2 - Hold Your Breath
The Quest: Figure out how long you can hold your breath
The world’s record for holding one’s breath is 19 minutes and 22 seconds, held by a Swiss freediver named Peter Colat. Before that David Blaine did his thing for 17 minutes and 4 seconds. Of course, both these records were set using a variety of techniques that aren’t quite useful in a day-to-day context such as sucking in...
Day 1 - Midnight Run
The Quest: Go for a run at midnight and find five things that surprise you.
I’ve lived in Kitsilano (Vancouver, BC) for about eleven years and I’m pretty sure I’ve run the length of the beach down towards the University of British Columbia well over 500 times. Still, running there at midnight it was remarkable both how hard it was mentally to remember where the path was and yet...
Day 0 - Starting Out
The point of this blog is simple: force myself to document (and therefore do) one interesting/cool/meaningful experience every day. It’s part of taking responsibility for living a meaningful life.