Sunday night Sara asked me to a masquerade happening at her school the weekend before Hallowe’en. I’m actually quite excited to go, despite my clumsy, big feet’s impedance of dancing. Here’s hoping I’ll not make a fool of myself.
On Moday I headed out to Bayer’s Lake, a nearby shopping area, to find a costume. I wandered around Value Village for a while until I decided on a black robe that I’m going to try to use for a sorceror’s costume. Sara will be going as a fairy princess and a wizard was one of the suggestions she had for what I could go as. I’m not entirely happy with the costume so far, but I’ll be trying to prefect it over the coming days and work on a makeup scheme that might fit.
After my costume shopping I visited Chapters, where I bought two books I’m excited to be reading. In the bargain area I found a book on yoga by Christy Turlington titled Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice, which so far has been an enjoyable and informative read. What I was most excited to find was Ken Wilber’s novel Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free. Ok, so I’ve been on a Wilber kick lately, but for good reason; the man is arguably the greatest living philosopher-sage and is hilarious. Boomeritis has so far been very entertaining and I’m already plotting about introducing people to integral theory through it. That it’d make an ideal Christmas gift for so many of my friends has been a lingering thought.
I recently read an interesting piece, “They Want You“, by Max Barry about desensitizing caused by advertising. He asks us to observe ads and think of why the people in ads would look at you as they appear to.
1. They want to have sex with you
2. You just told them the funniest joke in the world ever
3. You just told them the funniest joke in the world ever and now they want to have sex with you
He addresses the sex focus of ads and our indifference to that quite humourously and asks whether it carries over into the rest of our lives. I think it’s a valid question, and an interesting exercise to help us be more conscious of what is happening in the media space around us.
I must return to my work now. Namaste.