Author: Amanda Viviers

place: mums

poison: orange juice

Favourite Things: don’t know how to change this font.

Going to make the most of this font problem.

 

TO

WRITE

LOVE

ON

HER

ARMS

is an amazing movement of young people who are determined to make a difference in the area of youth suicide, cutting and depression.

Im into and so should you be.

I have walked side by side with a young friend who has been plagued by the demon of cutting. Its so confronting and is a secret part of our society that is not often addressed.

speak up

A

place: mums

poison:water

favourite things: mums new rosary cd (smile)

i am loving the whole creative aspect of the website, these are pictures of people who feel pretty right now. NICE

A

place: Mums

Poison: Choc covered licorice

Favourite Things: choc licorice!

I have found this website that searches blogs, myspaces, wespaces and the like looking for sentences with the word feel and then a describing word attached…

Like I feel beautiful, I feel angry, I feel itchy. So on and so on.

At this moment people accross the world, accross the web are expressing the fact that they feel:

1.small

2.dirty

3.proud

4.awkward

5.cold

6.safe

7.lonely

8.wrong

9.real

10.great

What a fascinating social experiment. That someone, would create a software to check how the world is feeling. Its a huge big question shouting out accross the ‘How are ya feeling?’

The interesting thing however, for as long as this experiment has been going most people express feelings that are negatively bent.

Feelings. nothing. more. than.

Feelings.

or

not.

A

Place: Office

Poison: Water

Favourite Things: bright green tees…

On tuesday night, the amazing Jeff Crabtree and Julie Crabtree spoke to our creative teams about ‘Living with a creative mind!’ (the topic of their well anticipated book)

Jeff played a clip from this website- which was inspirational.

Check it out.

That’s a topic for a book right there!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66

Watch it, I promise it will be 20 mins well spent.

Dance a little

A

Place: sitting in my office! Yeha!

Poison: Diet Coke

Favourite Things: new laptop with fingerprint technology

Sooooo, laughing at this photo.

Another confession ‘I have a fake sugar addiction also’ Mostly because I love sweet things, but they don’t love my body!

As I was laughing at this photo, I got a pretty damning creative revelation.

How often do we replace the real thing, for some fake, chemical, lack of freshness in the area of creativity and performance?

How often do we go back to something that has satisfied our real need but with something that is not the real thing?

Fake conversations, old ideas, songs that have worked so get them out again, messages and writings that are old, stale or even worse just a fake replica?

Just a thought, do with it what you will

Love ya natalie I do….

NO SUGAR. NO FRESHNESS. DIET COKE!

Smile.

A