this week i had the absolute joy of catching up with friend lowell sheppard who was in london for a book awards ceremony as his book dare to dream was one of the books in the final selection. he was giving a workshop at the royal geographic society.
i have never been there before and we got a tour as part of it. it's a place with millions of maps, paintings of colonial explorers and their artefacts and so on. we were shown the lecture theatre and this slide was up for a lecture that was happening that evening called 'the lost art of getting lost' which was celebrating 50 years of the bradt guides. hilary bradt is a female explorer.
that of course made me think of getsidetracked as we had the same thought and one of the prompts is GET LOST . it's one of my favourite illustrations and would love it as a t-shirt if and when we get round to doing that (there's another idea for a GET!)
GET LOST says
It’s really hard to get lost these days. So switch off your phone or even better leave it behind. Set yourself a challenge of genuinely getting somewhere where you have no idea where you are. This will sharpen your senses no end. See what you find! It’s worth practicing lostness with low risk so you’re prepared for really being lost. You lose a friend, a job, a home, your health. Whilst you wouldn’t wish these bigger displacements on anyone people often find things they would never have discovered if things had followed the path they had planned. So whether you choose it or it just happens embrace it.
GET SIDETRACKED is an app on creativity with 54 promts - shake your phone for a random GET. search getsidetracked in the apple or android app stores.
get lost!
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