If you’re so inclined, make stuff.

Last week, my friend Amy Guth posted to my Facebook wall about a blog post I had written back in 2010, which had inspired her to write something similar: That one blog post was a part of a larger endeavor called the 30-Day Creativity Project. I haven’t thought about it in ages, and when I saw Amy’s post,…

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Day #27: The meaning of being hoppy (part 2)

Like I wrote last night, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be happy. I realized that it is a lot easier to sum up other people’s versions of happiness than to do my own… so Day #26’s happiness project was about estimating what makes other people happy (namely, my close friends).

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Day #26 – The meaning of being hoppy

Well, you know you’re really screwed when you get home at 2 a.m. in the morning after a night out with friends, and as you turn the key into your apartment door, you realize that — shit — you still haven’t done a creativity project.

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DAY #25 — A study of club stamps

It’s day 25 and I am REALLY starting to run out of ideas. While I was brushing my teeth tonight at 11:30 p.m., staring into the mirror, I wondered what kind of “creativity” I could conjure up before I went to bed. That’s when I noticed it — the hideous, black “club stamp” on the back on my right hand. But wait, there’s another one on my left hand.

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