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Presenting…A Tale of Two Roommates!
I’m sooooo digging being a part of Jamie Ridler’s inspiration-infused The Next Chapter discussion group. Every Friday when we share our latest wreckage with each other, I’m always revved up to try new things with the book Wreck This Journal.
Last Friday was no exception. After watching several of my fellow wreckers submerge their books in water (swimming with your book!? really, Jenn!?), I decided it was time to bravely waterlog my own.
My roommate Katherine got home from work thoroughly exhausted. As you can see from the video, she was in no shape to go to the beach (my first request), but she was willing to try the front yard.
After true confessions around the water bucket, the wreckage began…
~tomato (and journal) watering!
~book throwing!
~page sponging!
What I didn’t include in the video, though, was my bravest moment: soaking the journal in a water-filled bucket! It took 3 days of sun bathing to get the book dry again. And she’s not nearly as pretty as she was last week:
Sigh — most of my braids tore off! Aren’t I doing a good job of letting go? Choosing non-attachment is harder than I thought it would be. But I’m trying…
The entire wrecking experience took about 20 minutes, but wow! Both Katherine and I felt so incredibly rejuvenated after wards. Perhaps this is because of the sheer playfulness of the activity. And the extreme focus. Oh — and a playmate doesn’t hurt, huh?
So, last week several people had trouble uploading my video. I promised them I’d reprint the poem that I made by repositioning the words in the acknowledgments page. Enjoy…
>>>>>>Ooh no! I just opened the journal to retrieve the poem and — ack! — all the words clattered out of it. Apparently, glue does not hold up well after being soaked in water. What was that I said about non-attachment!!!??? I’ll try and recreate it anyway.<<<<<<<
From the beginning
Gratitude rips me wide open.
My full and daring life
A constant inspiration
People from all over the world help brainstorm ideas
And believe in my artistic/creative vision.
Believe
Follow
Continue
Help
Thanks.
I didn’t know you 2 were partners in destruction! You are a very good/bad influence on each other, lol.
Talk about non-attachment troubles, I am upset that your poem got washed out. It’s not even my book!
Cool, but two things:
Katherine, you’ve got to clean up your room *lol*
and
Tomatoes don’t like water from above!
Happy wrecking whatsoever! 😉
I loooooooooooooooooooove that you are growing your journals with the tomato plants! Brilliant… 🙂
That was awesome!
I so enjoyed your wreckage. And what fun it must have been. I need to get creative now. This is my first week.
Great, great wrecking!
ha! so fun to see a double wreckage!! love it!
You two make a great team!!
Well, I guess now we all know where the page will get buried — as compost for the ‘maters out back. hehehe
Thank you for reconstituting the poem, that is incredible!!!!
Keep on wrecking!
Absolutely fantastic! I love this post and all the wrecking you both did, so much fun to watch and wow, where can I get me some magical tomatoes?!
It’s nice to know I am not the only one having issues with the artistic stuff, that has been very revealing for me too.
WOW! No inhibitions live at your house! You two are fabulous wreckmates! Weee! 🙂
Great wrecking! Fantastic poem.
Roommates! Journal Wreckers! Journal throwers! You two make a great team 🙂
It was the most creative of times, it was the most destructive of times…! You girls wrecked the “Dickens” out os those journals!! I’m so glad you re-constructed the poem!! It’s wonderful.
I’m coming late to this wreckage business. Since this is “Week 5,” I assume there have been 4 previous wreckage entries. Is the point simply detachment from previous creation? Sometimes I have troble writing stuff in an “official journal” because I’m afraid I’ll have to cross out something and wreck the page unintentionally. I suppose wrecking a journal before I write in it might cure this problem. Anyway, this wrecking business is very curious to me, as in “curiouser and curiouser” a la Alice in Wonderland.
Great wrecking!
i though I posted lready.. so I seea i didnt!
How wonderful to have a partner in crime.. I like your attitude!! it is hard to see pages wash away isnt it?