reasons 1-88 why i love rally!
1. Havi 2. Selma and her scarf
3. visiting the playground
4. meeting new people
5. having an excuse to stay at the Kennedy School
6. visiting with the schmoppet
7. drinking out of zombie glasses
8. Pie across the street from an ostrich
9. the grilled cheese bus
10. 3 days of doing nothing but talking to myself
11. the art store west of the playground
12. tot-choes which while yummy and delicious will not be got again
13. townsend tea east of the playground
14. new seasons at Killingsworth and 33rd is my new grocery love
15. going up to the faery door and ringing the bell
16. the refueling station
17. the keys in the refueling station
18. making friends with a rally-gator
19. spending an entire 3 hours doing nothing but talking to my monsters
20. dance of shiva in a group
21. rolling around on the floor everyday at 4pm
22. the amazing conversations with people who show up for rally
23. the walk back and forth from the Kennedy School to the Playground
24. a door with a pirate duck on it
25. the men's bathroom on the second floor (hey ours was broken)
26. coming home with a journal full of rally ideas and goodnesses
27. having genius insights
28. finally understanding a piece of the stuck
29. dancing with the resistance
30. lavender lemonade
31. crepes
32. being applauded for having a salad and dessert crepe
33. having smart awesome people want to help you with your thing
34. cackling for 4 days at every opportunity available
35. an entire HUGE table full of costumes
36. being encouraged to put on said costumes
37. coming home with art ideas
38. allowing myself to hide
39. soaking with friends
40. bad action flicks at the couch theater
41. chalkboards for walls
42. pirate monkey tree decals
43. having dinner with a pirate queen and her first mate
44. two weeks after rally has passed, still being inspired by rally
45. still having brilliant ideas post rally
46. where else can you take a meditation cushion, some scarves and make a bustle dress
47. are you still reading this?
48. then you should sign up for the february rally
49. so much laughing, even during the hard
50. quiet amazing space that you can wander through and see others furiously working
51. the click clacking of typing fingers
52. the smiles as you walk by others doing their thing
53. the snores coming from the corner while napping happens
54. the fact that we are encouraged to nap and feel safe enough to nap
55. alberta street
56. multi colored houses with ratty couches on porches that is so portland
57. seeing friends who live in portland!
58. getting lost in the horribleness that is SW portland and swearing with new found rallion
59. completing art projects at home and being sad cuz i don't have people to celebrate with me at the end of the day
60. popping bubbles
61. poking bears in the stomach to get at said bubbles.
62. tea
63. french bakery across the street
64. too many places to eat at making decision making hard
65. squeezing around a booth with awesome people
66. the lamps at the playground-works of art i tell you-horrendously beautiful and so very, very perfect.
67. did i mention yet that i have a whole notebook of ways i can make money as soon as i get it all together
68. people who say yay! and celebrate
69. getting to have a new super power every day
70. drawing my force field around me every day, multiple times a day has helped me remember how useful boundaries are
71. seriously if you are still reading this you obviously want to come to a rally, find a way to make it happen.
72. 3 days talking to faeries-insightful
73. sun, sun, sunny portland
74. the drive from seattle to portland
75. the journal questions at the end of shiva nata-wow!
76. having so much fun at rally it doesn't matter any longer how to pay for it because exponential growth of funds cannot help but happen post rally
77. practice for projectizing at home
78. did i mention the really amazing people? cuz fun, and creative, and amazing
79. seeing photos of the balloon festival in new mexico which i so need to go to
80. stories about places i never thought to visit and now i wants too cuz cool people live there
81. there are no starbucks within walking distance that i saw! amazing!
82. trees-portland has big trees
83. the graffiti vandals cam but they left buzzy bees type graffiti which i liked if i have to look at graffiti
84. a strong need to make things, and having work get in the ways of my projects
85. it's fun
86. narnia wardrobes in kennedy school to put clothes and self and project in
87. putting projects to be is a useful thing to learn
88. rally-gators that guard your project and like to snuggle in your bed