PICTURES OF THE WEEK
I had dinner in Chinatown and got the fortune: It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Chinatown, are you flirting with me? 😌
After Action Report: Adventure Potluck - Feb 6
Or: “Want to see a magic trick?” really is a magical invocation...
Adventure Potluck: an event where we meet up at a cafe at 7 PM, everyone puts an item on the table and tells a few things about it. By 8 PM, we’ve devised some sort of action around those objects and are out doing it. No matter what is happening, the event is done at 10:30 PM. Here is the report from Feb 6.
Location - Cafe La Boheme - who seems to have the most amazing bathroom technology and layout!
Agents - R.R, D.S., J.R. and myself.
Objects - Glow in the dark rocks, a wireless doorbell with multiple tones, a copy of You Are a Circle covered in gold paper, a tile (unused)
Action: After we all presented our items, we went around and all offered ideas on how to use then. When we focused our ideas all starting on the book, the final idea came out: We show a passerby a glow rock that hasn’t been in the light, so it is dark. We’d ask the passerby to read a random page of the book. While they do that, we palm a glow in the dark rock and shine a flashlight on it, so the rock glows. We tell them the joy in their heart has lit up the rock, and give the the rock to the person reading the passage. When we hand them the rock, we play an angelic bell on the wireless door bell.
Results:
The event was great: it was small, attended by both the intent and the bewildered. We struggled, and we were scared. We created magic - for others and ourselves. We were exhausted at the end. We truly felt alive.
We were unsure how to start: how would we approach strangers so they didn’t feel uncomfortable. We said we just needed to do it once. And then agent R.R. ran into a group of four friends they know. It was someone’s birthday. Suddenly all 4 were getting the experience. We were emboldened by the experience.
We went to the ice cream parlor. We ate ice cream: we stole someone else's by accident, so we worked them in the act, got them their ice cream, and got a second one for ourselves to. We learned a key phrase to get people to participate with us: would you like to see a magic trick? It was amazing!
We recruited more people and ran into more friends. All of them had a great time. Then we all got cold and sugar crashed and went home, after a good round of hugs.
Wanna be part of the next one? Let me know and ‘ll be sure to send you an invite!
This coyote was so handsome: silent, poised, focused. Photo credit to Julie
Finding this place was an adventure, climbing the hill was challenging. The view was worth it all.
Photo credit to Julie.
