I am SO excited! I have this weird obsession for these
journals that Keri Smith creates. The first one I bought was called “Wreck This
Journal”. Basically you’re destroying the
book slowly and so creatively. Sure it tells you to write 4 letter words and
draw circles, but then it tells you to plop food on it and drag is through the
mud, rip a page out and tape it back in after crumbling it. I so want to be a
writer (and published one day) but sometimes I lose that creative side of
myself that I love. I bought this book for a couple of friend for that very
reason… think outside the box, get
dirty, do something random and crazy!
Anyhoo… imagine my surprise and delight when I came across “The
Pocket Scavenger” while waiting for a friend for dinner last night. Um… YAY!
First of all I’ve been trying to get people to do a scavenger hunt with me
FOREVER... no biters. Boo to you all, boo to you all!
(BTW, they do these really cool ones in the city that go to Grand
Central, Central Park and the MET to name a few. Um, amaze balls! Plus I fully
plan on going to the International Spy Museum when I visit DC again. Me with an
electronic device texting me clues on where to run to next? HELLO, who are we
talking to?? Shut up, sold… just take my money!!)
So this new book gives you a list of 72 random things to
find and the story of where/when/how it came to be… but then you get to alter
it somehow randomly according to another list. This book is the perfect
distraction for someone like me. The items are everyday, normal things that
seem unimportant and not very special, like a postage stamp or buttons. But the
beauty then comes from the story behind it and what role it played in your
life. At least that’s the way I see it. Maybe the stamp is from an old love
letter you kept for years and the button came from the shirt of the actor you
were stalking. Something random turns into something exciting and personal...
it’s another way to see someone and get a peek into their mind. So then like I
said, you have to alter it somehow – add thumbprints, an explosion, another
item. It further takes this ordinary item that you make unique to you and then
has you add a personal flair to it. This book basically begs you to “infuse
your daily excursions with a quest to see these things with new eyes.”
I get way too excited about things I know, and it IS only a
book…… but life is about taking what’s given to you and leaving behind
something extraordinary; leaving behind a piece of you. I think that’s
beautiful.
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