Scrivenista? L Magazine wants your pocket fiction. BLOWING UP on Flickr? Click! Onomastically inclined? Submit a zoonym to Prospect Park Zoo’s kangaroo naming contest. Paralegalizing your pretty face away in a black tower in Money City? Take an actor/dominatrix gig. Musician could-be? Well.
Producing under-the-gun for competitions, exhibitions and left-field “gigs” leads to new experiences/people/ideas. It may be best to “cross the river where it’s narrowest,” but in the absence of fragmentary-blackouts, or a robotrip…
we still need excitement, and to occasionally go out on that limb.
When you sit right down in the middle of yourself
You’re gonna wanna have a comfortable chair
So renovate your soul before you get too old cuz you’re gonna be housebound there…
You’d better put some beauty back, while you got the energy
Cynicism is almost insurmountable. But, in addition to acting commonly decent, we can IMPROVE THE WORLD, by evaluating what would make it “a better place,” and participating in the execution.
(video: courtesy Giant Elephants Roam, a friend’s not-for-profit formed to bring animation education to prisons and animated films out)
Maybe formal “volunteering” sounds awful, because common youthful “volunteering” experiences are actually INvoluntary, and “philanthropy” is a disillusioning term.
