Post written by Laura Cococcia. You can follow Laura on Twitter.
This weekend, I listened to a speaker talk about “adventure” and what it means. I could give you more context about where I was, who said it, etc. but I will save the mystery for later. But it wasn’t at REI or Six Flags.
I’m preparing a post on the topic of adventure for this weekend based on the talk, but I’d like to get your input. I know what it means for me, but would love to know what the word or experience of adventure means for you. All of you.
Poll question: What was the last thing you did that was truly adventurous?
Remember, adventure can be whatever it is for you – no right or wrong answers (but let’s keep it clean folks). Maybe you need to take a little trip to your dictionary to get some words for thought and jump start the memory. Totally cool.
All responses, whether via email, Twitter or comments, will get link credit and responses will be included in the post.
Look forward to hearing your answers and thoughts – more to come!
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So excited to share my guest post that’s up at World’s Strongest Librarian. Many thanks to Josh (in case you didn’t know, he’s the librarian), who is an amazing friend and taught me everything I know.
You can check it out here: “How I Found My Voice In The Lost City of the Incas.” Thanks Josh!
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. . .A bit before the lawsuit and during those days of becoming a softly powerful woman, I became an artist of words. Yes! Wonderful creative stuff that I hung on my walls and covered myself with at night. I say, “I found my creativity” but, this is not true and I know it. A tiny little witch who introduced herself as Ms. Muse, is the one who gave me huge round chalk and said, “Write a poem and fill it with all the words you want to say. Then write another poem on top of that first poem and fill this second layer with words you don’t want to say.” And, I did! Over and over, word on word and layer on layer. When I ran out of words the only thing on the paper was. . .dare I say, art! Yes. This is my greatest adventure and it happened not too long ago. After Ms. Muse hung the first word layered print–Negative Vibrations– on my living room wall, I lost my job. A year later, we, Ms. Muse and I, hung our art prints in a small, cozy coffee shop. And, OMG, that was a real holler of an adventure. The very outrageous fact of this story is, I have my old mean boss to thank! And, truly, I am most grateful for our experience together.
Thanks for the post Laura. I loved it, and from the sounds of it, everyone else did too. You have a rare gift for writing, but it inspires rather than intimidates. That’s not a common combination.
Hi Laura,
To me adventure means travelling. My wife and I love to travel, especially to Asia. Now our two kids are 5 and 8 years and we decided we could take them along on some adventure travel. We went to Thailand last July: Bangkok (now that is a real adventure!), Khao Sok National Park and 2 beautiful islands Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. The culture, the heat, the life on the street, the beauty of nature: a real adventure for us!
Good luck!
Emiel
Hi! i saw your link on @vandenboomen twitter!
I am totally scared of heights. When I heard that my husband’s friends, Julien Repellin and Azlan Idrus of Skytrex Adventure had created an unusual high elements adventure in the Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam Agricultural Park (Taman Pertanian Shah Alam) located in Malaysia, I just had to go and see about conquering my Acrophobia. It’s high, and pretty damn scary.
I had to go back TWICE before I actually completed the route!
here is my link on this adventure.
http://cumidanciki.com/2008/04/skytrex/
@Lissa – LOVE your story. I can’t wait to share it in the post. You write with such amazing style!
@Josh – I can’t thank you enough for letting me guest post – and thank you for being such a great writing mentor and inspiration. I feel very lucky to have found you.
@Emiel – Great to see you here! Looks like we’re both avid travelers – and I love hearing that you’ve taken your kids on your travels. So many friends have wanted to do that – you’re an inspiration – will include your story in the post!
Hi Laura!
Hope you’ve checked out Curator of the Week on the Blogger’s Group on She Writes…I highlighted TJCC as one of my chosen blogs (Dec. 6 Curator of the Week thread)… as it so deserves!
-Laura Didyk
.-= Laura ´s last blog ..Make Stuff Update! =-.
Laura! You’re wonderful and what an honor! You’re doing such fab things yourself – am so impressed with what She Writes is doing. I’m headed over there now to check it out!
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