Ben Okri
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. Ben Okri, poet and novelist born March 15, 1959
Tag Archives: reading
Make Something: Reverse
Ideally a book would have no order, and the reader would have to discover his own. Mark Twain
Make Something: Role Reversal
Today’s make something assignment was to do someone else’s job for awhile. I was to create something at that person’s workplace, or at least based on the experience of doing their […]
Make Something: Spam
Today’s make something assignment was to draw inspiration from the spam email in my inbox. I have no shortage of that. I get dozens of junk messages in my email […]
Make Something: Bookmark
Today’s make something instructions were to make a unique bookmark. A quick scan of Pinterest generated more ideas (and many more complicated ideas) than I needed. But I saw several […]
Make Something: Unappetizing (but edible)
If you look at this plate of food and say, “What the …?” then I guess today’s mission is accomplished. The instruction was to “make something appetizing seem unappetizing (but […]
Make Something: Flip Book Animation
Today’s make something prompt invited me to create a flip-book animation in the corner of a notebook. My animation is not nearly as long or impressive as one I discovered several decades […]
Make Something: Glasses
The year was probably 1994 or 1995. I’d been out of journalism school and writing professionally (for pay) for a few years. An outstanding boss/writing mentor had taught me even […]
Make Something: Hat
Look at me: I’m the cat in the hat that is The Cat in the Hat! Eight-year-old Emma gets the image credit. She posed me on a stair, then stood […]
Make Something: Miniature
It’s 10:30 pm, and I am just now getting to today’s make something challenge. The order is to miniaturize something that would normally be much bigger. My concept was to […]
Make Something: Shelter
The assignment for today was to create a personal shelter. I find safety and warmth under the roof of an open book. Good books, great stories, and brilliant poetry have […]
Make Something: Rebus
A “rebus” is a visual puzzle that uses pictures and symbols in place of words or syllables in a phrase or story. When my son was an early reader, one of […]
Make Something: Passing Through
Day 124: Make something seem like it is passing through a wall or other solid material that it normally wouldn’t or couldn’t. Conceptually, I knew exactly what I wanted to […]
Make Something: Map
Today’s instruction was to work with an old map or create something that looks like a map. Rather than a traditional, geographical map, I wanted to work with a map […]
Make Something: A Lot
Quantity over quality: work with a lot of something. So came today’s instruction from Noah Scalin’s book on making something every day and changing your life. (Have I mentioned that […]
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