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i am an accumulating experimenter. This comes from a lifetime lived denying the thing I loved the most as a child. Even got close to doing it, going full out with a degree in university. So this question ties in very well with yesterday's which I will answer at the same time. I seem to fall into pontification often and far too easily which when I encounter it in someone else, I find it excruciatingly boring and rather insensitive... It would be far better to share my accumulated knowledge in a package where people sign in to listen too, like they choose to be there.

so here goes, some workshop ideas:

1. How to be an amateur chorister

2. Cooking beyond the capitalist structure

3. Rewilding and regenerative urban gardening

4. Journaling

5. What learning feeling like and why it's important

6. How to repurpose almost anything from food to orphaned gloves.

7. Urban foraging

8. The 15 minutes city and urban and suburban planning

9. ....

I'm sure I could add more from the list other people give about things I know they would like to know more about. I've been a Renaissance Woman for as long as I can remember. Giving workshops would satisfy the part of me that carries around my "How to do Everything Better Guide" The Surefire Way to make sure everyone else does everything perfectly and alienate all your friends and neighbours, and any family members still talking to you.

Of course where I live is a great demonstration of all of these things as everyroom is like some kind of studio space. Living in suburbia without a car is a challenge as well. However, see above #8.

It's a very noisy way to live, my butterfly mind does accomplish things, however I'm being to desire a new way of being.

Back to practice! I have a last minute opportunily to sing Handel's Messiah tonight. I wanted to write this so I didn't add more to my accumulations of things I want to do.

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Great question! There are so many ways to answer this one or look at it. What popped into my head first was that I live in a place where I can walk easily - out the door and into a small Canadian neighborhood where there are a mix of people and types of dwellings (townhouses, single dwelling homes, duplex-type townhouses) and lots of trees and some green spaces. I can also drive 20 minutes to the ocean and walk along the beaches. I'm lucky - I have options. What a great reminder - how fortunate I am. Thanks for this!

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