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Week Two – Activity

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Before you die, live! Week TwoWeek Two begins here.

I was thinking about what my project could be this week. I was trying to think of something that would challenge me, but also do me some good.

As a result of a few things that have been happening in my life in the past wee whiley and a general feeling of directionlessness, I’ve been really aware that I’m not really pushing in to my faith as I feel I should.

So this week’s activity is to spend at least an hour each evening (when Big Brother is on, naturally…) meditating. I am a Christian and as such will use some meditation exercises with Jesus as my focus. I really hope that I will be able to discern better what God is saying to me. I just need a fresh experience of Him.

Again, if anyone else wants to join me, you are very welcome. If you want to come round to the house, please do so. If you’re not a Christian, follow another form of meditation if you want.

I’d be very curious to see what the outcome will be – please let me know.

Week One – All done!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Questions

1. What did I learn?

Not a great deal, to be honest. I deliberately chose a fairly straightforward project for week one. And this was one. I didn’t have any great plan for this, I just did what made sense. I started with the white bricks because I alway do – always with the nice little house. Then I tangented into a wizard’s cottage, some kind of crypt general knight-y weirdness.

I learned that I like building things.

2. Did anything surprise me?

Nope. Only that I didn’t realise how much Lego we have in the house. I was surprised how caught up I got in this. I was looking forward to getting home a couple of nights last week, cos I wanted to get more building done. I am actually quite surprised that I got quite inventive with this – in the past, I’ve generally done the same thing over and over – the traditional white house thing.

3. Would I do it again?

Probably, but I would have to have an actual aim in mind. I quite like the idea in Douglas Coupland’s book Microserfs – The Oop office decorated with Lego sculptures that can be pulled down and put back together whenever. Beautiful!

Here is the finished product. I particularly like the snake and the Manga dudes on the top. I ended up breaking into the Lego sets we were going to sell online. And now everything’s mixed up. But to be honest, it was worth it.

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