I request the following for my birthday gifts:
1. A twenty-five word biography of yourself.
2. Your view of the world in twenty-five words.
3. A story from your 25th year. If you have a picture or an items that accompanies your story, that would be awesome!
4. Travel to some part of the city that you have never been to before (like the polar opposite side of the city) and take a picture that takes your fancy. It can be absolutely anything. As long as you have had some sort of an adventure!
5. A book you recommend that I read.
6. Send me your favourite poem. I'll send you mine.
7. Advice on life.
8. What adventure would you like to partake with me? I'm in Edmonton for two more months - and then I'm on the road again...
9. A mix cd of your favourite music. I'll give you one in exchange.
10. Do one new thing and tell me about it. I'll do the same thing in exchange.
11. Smile to twenty-five people. Tell me the people you smiled at and what their reactions were.
12. Walk twenty-five minutes (from work or from your home) and take a picture of something. If you’re keen, do this from all four points of the compass. I'll do the same thing in exchange.
13. Walk twenty-five blocks (from work or from your home) and take a picture of something. If you’re SUPER keen, do this from all four points of the compass. Ditto.
14. Go see something that you would not see - a show, a festival, a statue, whatever. Take a picture, sketch it - whatever. Document the process and send it to me.
15. Eat something new. Take a picture of it and tell me how you prepared it and how it tasted.
16. Drink something new. Take a picture of it and tell me how it tasted.
17. A drawing. I don't care if you think you can't draw. YOU HAVE HANDS! You CAN draw! If it is a doodle on a napkin, all the better! :)
18. A twenty-five word poem. I’ll send you one in exchange.
19. A picture of your most cherished item. Tell me why it is your most cherished item.
20. Don’t do anything for twenty-five minutes.
21. The one place in the world that you wish to visit.
22. Tell me two things that you love and five things that you hate.
23. Notice something small that nobody seems to notice (like a line of ants going about their days, the lint on someone’s shirt, a baby watching the world go by, whathaveyou) and tell me about it. I’ll exchange a similar story.
24. Talk to a stranger. Tell me what happened.
25. 25 cents.