Day 5: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” this riddle is asked, but not answered by the Hatter. What do you think the answer is? 🧐
Alice’s struggles to get into the garden are like the kind of day where everything is *just* off enough so that nothing seems to go right. She finds the key to the gate, but she’s too big to go through it. Then she shrinks, but forgets the key on the table. So she has to grow big again to get the key… I feel like I’ve had these days. Right place, wrong time, just over and over again 😂 On these kinds of days, I wouldn’t mind a magical mushroom to solve some of my problems.
Day 6: I’d think it is safe to say that people don’t seek out yoga because they have already achieved all of the zen that they need in their lives. Rather the opposite. Of course we are all mad here, or else we wouldn’t be here. 🙂🙃
The Cheshire Cat is up in the tree to the right and smiling approvingly. I think. 🧐 it can be quite hard to tell with him. He growls when he is happy and wags his tail when he is angry.
This was easy to edit, I just left the camera in place and took two photos where I wouldn’t be overlapping myself. Then laid one on top of the other and erased the part that was covering me. Oh, and added the Cheshire cat looking out from a knot in the tree. I think that the branch above him looks a bit like a tail.
Day 7: This edit is pretty out there for me. I debated for a while over posting, and even asked a friend if it was too crazy. 😆 This might have also been a fitting picture for the caterpillar, with the cloud representing hookah smoke, but that’s not the way the cards played out, if you will. 😉
The dodo 🦤 is the character that Carroll used to represent himself in the story. I’ve tried to illustrate that expansive imagination of his with the colorful cloud here.
I can’t say that my imagination has ever been quite as original as Carroll’s. But I am so very glad that he, and others have put that imagination to pen and paper and given us stories filled with magic and meaning such as this.
Day 8: I’ve chosen to represent Alice with a flip of perspective.
Alice awakens from her dream to find herself back in the real world under a tree and tells her sister of her adventures in Wonderland. After she runs off, her sister thinks lovingly of a future where Alice is grown and has children of her own, to which she tells the fantastic tales of her adventures in Wonderland.
May we all take away from this to keep a child-like wonder for the simple joys in life.
If you would like to read the story, it and many others are available in full length for free to read online at Gutenberg.org 📚
Challenge in review: “When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”
Beyond all of the traditional academic benefits that we think of, reading is a great tool to improve creativity. It actually changes the way that your brain works. It improves your ability to picture a detailed scene, it helps you think through complex problems, imagine and understand alternative and complex ideas, and by reading about characters different from ourselves- it boosts our emotional quotient.
If you don’t read because books are “boring” I would like to offer the alternative narrative that you just haven’t found a book that is a good fit for you. There are quite a few more to choose from. 😅
If you’ve made it this far, thanks for sticking with me! Drop your best recent reading recommendation in the comments!
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