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Saturday, December 04, 2004

I know its a bit long one to read thru but then read as much as u can take in at once.

101 Ways Of Learning:

¥ Grow enough grain for one loaf of bread -- and make and eat the loaf
¥ Answer ALL the questions of a 3 year old for a week
¥ Spend a day alone in a wild place
¥ Follow your trash to its final resting place
¥ Collect food and blankets and spend a day giving them to homeless people taking the time to stop and talk about life
¥ Help in the birth of a lamb, cow, or horse
¥ Visit a slaughter house (try to withhold judgment)
¥ Organize a rite of passage ceremony for an adolescent, someone at mid-life, or yourself
¥ Switch genders for the day ¥ Build a house (your own, or for Habitat for Humanity)
¥ Ask a low rider how the lifters on their car work
¥ Apprentice yourself to someone you've always wanted to learn from
¥ Take a picture of you and all your stuff in front of the place where you live. Compare it to the pictures in Peter Menzel's Material World
¥ Read the sacred texts of another tradition
¥ Imagine your most delicious relationship and then go first ¥ Work for a week on an assembly line
¥ Spend a week without stepping in a car. Pay attention to how your town looks from a bike, bus, or sidewalk
¥ Exchange tutoring with a teenager - math or bicycle repair in exchange for Web browsing, skate boarding, dance, or ??
¥ Go to someone else's church, synagogue, or place of worship
¥ Go on a vision quest ¥ Take a dance class from a different culture
¥ Interview the oldest person you can find; record the conversation
¥ Interview a child
¥ Imagine a day in your life 15 years from now ¥ Plant and care for a tree
¥ Ask yourself, "What if everyone in the world behaved the way I am behaving?" ¥ Get the names of the favorite books of your dentist, grocery store clerk, mother, co-worker, and your minister/rabbi/priest or spiritual guide. Read those books
¥ Pretend to be someone else on the Internet
¥ Trace your water supply back to its source - and follow it down the drainpipes to its destiny
¥ Finger paint
¥ Spend a day in a neighborhood where you've never been before - without carrying any money
¥ Ask your friends, and your ex-friends, to anonymously send you a list of your five best and five worst character traits
¥ Live for a day off your garden
¥ Channel surf for an evening; ask yourself what about the programs is drawing people
¥ Be quiet for 5 minutes per day; increase gradually to 20
¥ Ask a young person what's on his or her mind and heart, and listen (don't try to 'fix it')
¥ Figure out when and on what part of your dwelling the sun's rays fall at different times of year (for extra credit: calculate the photovoltaic potential of your roof)
¥ Take a year off ¥ Read a foreign newspaper
¥ Meditate on the life of your unborn grandchild ¥ Talk to the janitor
¥ Assume that everything is your responsibility, if not your fault
¥ Examine a handful of compost or rich soil under a microscope
¥ Go without food for three days
¥ Watch a child being born ¥ Write a creation myth
¥ Visit an observatory, and look at the stars through a big telescope
¥ Map the creeks, streams, and rivers in your watershed
¥ Choose six jobs that interest you; find someone to interview for each and spend a day working alongside them
¥ Watch a snail
¥ Find out what percentage of the world's financial wealth is owned by the top 50 corporations, and how much by the 50 wealthiest people
¥ Visit the emergency ward of a major hospital
¥ Sleep outside under the stars
¥ Discuss these questions with a friend : If the Universe is finite, what happens at its edge ? If it's infinite, how did it get there ? If the Universe started 15 billion years ago, what was there before it started? Does time go on forever ?
¥ Visit a spiritual healer ¥ Find out what the clerk at the grocery store is thinking about
¥ Follow your electric wires to the source of the electricity
¥ Learn to line dance
¥ Spend two hours with a counselor exploring your life
¥ Pick three trees of different species and spend an hour meditating under each one
¥ Go on a week-long solo journey by bus, bike, or foot to a place you've never been; listen to the people you meet
¥ Learn how to build a wall ¥ Fall in love
¥ Take a bicycle to pieces and put it together again
¥ Visit a Native American reservation and talk with the people you meet about their past and future
¥ Learn how to give a good massage
¥ Spend a day watching a state or provincial legislature at work
¥ Calculate how much carbon dioxide your family is adding to the atmosphere each year
¥ Ask a good friend to share the most important lessons he or she has learned about sex and how to make love
¥ Perform menial or repetitive work at a job that lasts at least a week
¥ Read primary sources on history, science, social science (that is, avoid the authors who are interpreting the work of others)
¥ Carry all your trash around with you for a week. At the end of the week, weigh it all
¥ Write an episode of one of the current top-rated sitcoms on commercial TV; explain the story line to a friend
¥ Repair a damaged relationship
¥ Start that band/garden/book/art movement you told yourself you'd always do ¥ Throw the biggest party you can; try to get someone from every decade dancing
¥ Ask your parents about their relationship
¥ Refuse to do meaningless work for one week ¥ Offer to help your child's teacher
¥ Sell your car and go to India
¥ Seek out a friend of a different race & class
¥ Calculate the total miles traveled from the towns labeled on food cans in your pantry
¥ Ask a kid about divorce ¥ Teach yourself to play guitar
¥ Go to the industrial section of town and see how much free stuff is available (go dumpster diving)
¥ Make a movie about your neighborhood
¥ Visit the nearest creek once a week for a month and notice changes along the banks, in the water flows, in the pools
¥ Collect dumpling recipes from around the world; throw a dumpling party
¥ Imagine yourself looking back on your life at 90 years of age: what are the highlights? Who has been most important? What do you wish you had done? Now go out and do those things, thank those people and live those highlights.
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