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Your Life Story In Six Words Or Less

by Uncustomary | May 16, 2012 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

My awesome friend, Janice’s first summer school assignment is to write her life story in six words or less. It’s obviously pretty hard to do, but it’s interesting what you can come up with.

I’ve decided mine would be: “It’s all about dazzle, so far“

What would yours be??


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Now that I think about it, a perfectly good way to Now that I think about it, a perfectly good way to participate in the whacky walk merriment mission this week would be to wheelbarrow walk with someone. Remember that?

Listen to the lyrics of the Kesha potato song. 🥔

Happy Monday.

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This week, don’t just walk, interpret. 👣 Perf This week, don’t just walk, interpret. 👣 Perform. Have fun.

Channel your inner Ministry of Silly Walks and let your joy move your legs before logic does. 🚷

🤸‍♂️ Skip. 🦀 Crab crawl. 🧟‍♀️ Strut in slow motion. 🪇Add tambourines to your shoes.

 Let the world see what unselfconscious happiness looks like. 👠

Tag @merrimentmaker and use #11KActs so your moves can join the parade of joyful weirdos worldwide. 🩰

🎶 What’s your theme song for this week’s walk?

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I wrote this as something that will be true. 📝 I wrote this as something that will be true. 📝 That I am building towards daily. 💫 An affirmation of my life as I wish it to be:

🙂 I’m so happy that I now feel grateful that I feel so grateful that I didn’t give up. 

All those hard times when I felt like the fog 😶‍🌫️ was so thick I didn’t see a way out. 

I remember originally thinking I was here to be a guinea pig 🐹  for other people and my experiences were meant to be so extreme that I was here to be able to see and learn things so I could teach people the easier way and give perspective. 

But then things got so dark and difficult I didn’t know how to get back up. 🤿 It was treading water for so long. 

There were days, weeks, months, and even a couple years where I didn’t just feel like giving up, I literally wished for d3ath. 🧎‍♀️‍➡️

And now I am so, so glad that I didn’t give up. 🙏 I am so grateful I pushed through. 

Because now I understand what true perseverance is. 💪

I knew it before. But I wasn’t doing enough WITH it. 

And now I have turned my experiences into power. ⚡️ I have allowed it to embolden others and myself. I feel impenetrable. 🦹🏻‍♀️

I finally feel free. 🆓  Not just financially. Not just from what others expected of me. Not just from my disorders and illnesses and diagnoses. Not just from norms and society. But I feel free from myself. 🕊️

I feel free from my own limitations. I wake up and I feel excited. I wake up and I feel like I am actually, FINALLY, living my own theory. ♾️

For so long I wasn’t just teaching to others, I was teaching a philosophy that I wanted to live as well. And now I am living it fully. 🎈

I feel good. I do good. I am good. It’s a good life. I am alive. 🦋 And I am glad I am alive. 

And I am going to milk every fucking second out of it that I can. 🦆🔥

And I’m going to help everyone else do the same thing as much as I can while I’m here. 🌈

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Why to always ask for forgiveness instead of permi Why to always ask for forgiveness instead of permission. 🙏

🚫 Never ask for permission in establishments because if you get someone doing their job, the employee will have to refer to the manager 👷‍♂️ and the manager will play by the code of conduct. 📋

And there’s no section for something like that. 🤷‍♀️ And they usually haven’t been given agency to make decisions with nuance like this, and at the end of the day they want to keep their job and a project they see as frivolous isn’t worth their paycheck 💸 if they are the ones who give the approval.

If you asked the CEO 🏦 if you could do it, they would see the bigger impact and likely approve it and maybe even hire you for collaboration. 👩‍💼

But the reason you’ll never get approval from someone in an official capacity is because they don’t want to be linked to it in case it backfires. 🧯

If you just DO it, then they ALWAYS have plausible deniability. 🚧

Asking for forgiveness instead of permission isn’t just for us, it’s for them. 🩷

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Make your fun un-deflatable! 🌬️ A little whi Make your fun un-deflatable! 🌬️

A little while ago I was lucky enough to see a post that there was a pop up (or.. blow up) exhibit at the Pikesville Armory with artist made inflatables! 🐡

I had never even considered someone making their own inflatables! 🖼️ Isn’t that weird? Or maybe it’s not.

To me inflatables are fun things for props and pools. 🏊 And you buy them at Five Below or online. 🎈 But the truth is that anything that you can buy at a store can be made by an artist — and it’s definitely (well most LIKELY) going to be more interesting!

There were some really interesting ones and I’ll show them more later. 🎏 But I wanted to highlight for now.

It was an interactive one — 🕹️ and you KNOW I love interactive stuff!

When I walked in, I was sad because it looked like it was deflated. But things aren’t always what they seem... 🤔

Instead of disregarding it, 👣 I walked over and read the sign.

We were instructed to press the button on the ground. 🫷 Then the other. And the inflatable started to grow. 💨

And it didn’t just grow... it made sound. 🎼

It was called the Harmonicake. There were harmonicas and it hummed while it grew. 🪗 There were seats on the side. 🪑 And when you were done, you pressed the buttons to watch it deflate.

Thanks to @skymacklay for this incredible installation. 🎶 She’s a composer, sound artist, oboist, and this is NOT her first Harmonitree.

📍 The armory was also a great please to have an event. So much space! Looking forward to see what else they do there! @pikesville_armory promoted by the @mdartscouncil

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This week’s community feature ❣️ for the 11K This week’s community feature ❣️ for the 11K Acts Of Merriment project comes from Kat F in Maryland...

and can I just say... 😍 I’m OBSESSED!

She and her friends got dressed up in fun c0stumes and went around the Rio Shopping center to hand out stickers! 🎁

After my own heart. 💓

Reverse trick or treating! 🍭

The inflatable unicorn? 🦄 I HAVE THAT outfit.

Reminder: 🎃 You can do this any time of year.

Obsessed with the fact that she got so many friends to do this with her! 👭 Merriment in numbers! @Katfishsticks

Submit YOUR act towards our 11 thousand! 🗳️

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Bubble Parade Flash Mob! 🫧 I guess I’m posti Bubble Parade Flash Mob! 🫧

I guess I’m posting about two different flash mobs today, hahah. 😹

Story time: 📜 The first flash mob I was ever a part of was in 2012 I think. It was something on my bucket list ✅ and I diligently researched how to be a part of one. 🧑‍💻 I even put a Google alert out for “flash mob” and my state!

Finally I got a hit ❣️ and the way it worked was they sent out a video of pre-made choreography 💃 you were to practice and learn. Then we showed up at a Nordstrom’s 🏬 with instructions for how and when to start dancing.

That’s what flash mobs were at the beginning. 👯 Dancing in large groups as a surprise.

But to me, now, and maybe to more — flash mobs I think are a much larger and flexible concept. 🤔

I think it’s about creating something — ANYTHING — unexpected that creates a positive surprise. 😲 A piece of good news. A fun outcome.

❎ I don’t think it requires choreography. ❎ I don’t think it needs a group of people. ☑️ I think it can even be ONE person.

Maybe a flash mob could be when I show up and dance alone in a grocery store aisle. 🏪

Maybe it’s when I place a tiny guerrilla art installation for someone see on their walk home from work. 🎨

Maybe you would disagree because the technical working definition is 🗨️ “a large public gathering at which people perform an unusual or seemingly random act and then disperse, typically organized by means of the internet or social media”. 🤷‍♀️

And while I am aware of that — I still think we can be open to expanding what creating good news is. 📰 How we can share kindness, fun, silliness, absurdity, and give people a GOOD story to take home with them. 🤩

If that feels good to you, take it. 😊 If it doesn’t, leave it.

This is a wonderful gif that the fabulous Randall created of me at the 9th Annual Bubble Parade 🫧 — which I have transitioned into the Bubble FLASH MOB. 🌈

📸 @randallartphotos

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