on the real

The November Project
cause Guy Fawkes was right

November's big this year:

• Elections on the 4th
• Guy Fawkes day on the 5th
• Brother's birthday on the 5th (has nothing to do with anything else I'll say this post, but maybe if I write it here then I won't forget to call him)

Whatever happens at the start of the month is going to change the world (except maybe for my brother turning 21. Well, that'll change his world), so it seems right that you do something simple that reminds you to open your eyes a little wider than before and soak up what the world is doing around you and in places that you can't see.

If you like to think of yourself as a creator of some sort, any sort, art math science music words stories information thoughts whatever's clever, if you're a creator, then do this Project

For every day of the month of November (there's 31 of them), create something.


Por ejemplo:

• poem a day
• short short story a day
• play a day (suzan lori parks yes?)
• film something every day
• take a picture every day
• write a song
• make a beat
• listen to something you never would have and write about it
• dance
• build a Lego version of the Eiffel Tower
• write someone a note who you don't know, every day, some new, something powerful.
• leave a message
  

All of the above. None of the above. Anything can happen, cause you'll be back in November. And it doesn't matter if it's all pretty awful for awhile, cause the point is that at some point something might come to you, it might elude you all month (but hey, you may decide that thirty one days of doing something needs to be stretched out to threesixtyfive and keep going), or it might creep out the sides of your imagination at four AM when you're sleepin and it'll be one of those things you wake up for.

Do it and share it with the world, even if that only means posting it in a comment or conforming and making a blog or using facebook or posting updates outside your bedroom door every morning. I'd love to see what you do if you do it.

Do it. I'm doing it. Everyone's life could use a bit of creation. Maybe it'll make something about the world a little bit closer to your grasp and understanding. Or maybe it'll just make you think. Honestly, Shel Silverstein says it best:

Draw a crazy picture,

Write a nutty poem,

Sing a mumble-gumble song,

Whistle through your comb.

Do a loony-goony dance

‘Cross the kitchen floor,

Put something in the world

That ain’t been there been there before.

It's necessary. Sometimes you can't start a revolution without revolting against the routine you might be stuck in. Do something that takes you out of your Self on a daily basis for a bit. And for the Bros, The Brovember Project

And remember the 5th, for in the words of the shrunken head at the beginning of the 3rd Harry Potter movie, this is going to be a bumpy ride.