1. writing
2. sitting and talking (over a cup or glass of something)
3. (a distant 3rd) walking and talking
I've never been very interested in "doing things for fun" (besides talking) with people.
That's changing.
This year a Family Member and I fell out and didn't talk to each other for 6 months. When we talked again, pretty quickly I felt the same old resentments. I finally, way belatedly, realized something:
some relationships are not best served by talking. I want to be in Family Member's life, but I don't think we should talk so much.
But what things do people do (that I might enjoy) besides sit and talk?
***If you know or can think of good things to do, please let me know. Really. I need help!
This is not my area of comfort, so this Saturday morning I dropped into the Captain Kirk Academy for the Pursuit of Excellence--they have a 24/7 drop-in center just for this sort of thing--and came up with a list of some stuff we might DO together instead.
A lot of these are still pretty wordy, but I guess that's OK.
THINGS FAMILY MEMBER (and others) AND I MIGHT DO TOGETHER
(These are mostly local things, of course.)
1. Attend (don't have to perform!) Spoken Word Open Mic Night
2. Get henna hand-arm tattoos (temporary)
3. Use the free passes from the library to visit all sorts of museums,
like the Swedish Institute. Their Christmas exhibits are up until Jan.
4. See the current Native American Art exhibit at the Institute of Art (Damn. Museum's free, but this exhibit costs $8).
5. Take a Walk with Our Cameras---a photographing outing, maybe in downtown (because I rarely go there). We'd each snap shots--it'd be fun to compare what we've captured! We could blog them... or not.
6. bink and I went to the North West Fur Post this summer--a Historical Society site--and it was a blast! It'd be fun to go to some of the other Historical Society sites and events.
8. Go see retrospective films--they put together great old-film fests. Now: Charlie Chaplin. Coming up (Jan-Feb): Hard-Boiled Bogart!
9. Write an article for the online newspaper. (But not until after I'm done writing my book...)
They hold classes for citizen journalists every Wednesday
10. Go outdoors, in new ways.
Midwest Weekends wrote a list of "20 things that will make you fall in love with snow season."
I'm thinking less along the lines of going dog sledding and more along the lines going to see trumpeter swans in Monticello.
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* Tish Jones performing "Silence" at Up in Arms, a benefit concert for the family of Fong Lee, who was killed by a Police officer in 2007.
