If your answer to the riddle was "senses" then you are correct! Keeping a sense diary is all about putting the five senses we have been given to good use and these days, we are fed with so much media that I wonder if we stop to smell the roses like we used to? Do we marvel over the awesome cloud formation in the sky while we are taking a walk in the park, or when we go to the grocery store, do we notice how the grocers display their produce?
When we are going about our daily tasks, everything can seem common and mundane, but statistics and probability prove that's just not the case. You can go the same place every day, see the same people everyday, and eat relatively the same meals every day, but there's always something new to notice when you force yourself to see, taste, hear, touch, and smell everything differently than what you're already used to seeing, feeling, hearing, tasting, and smelling.
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This week's assignment is about finding something uncommon in your everyday tasks and heightening your senses. This will expand your creativity after incorporating it into your craft. I have a feeling that the most creative people look at the everyday things much differently than most people do and that's an amazing thing to know. Plus, it gives us all something to reach for - coming up with more original ideas and concepts that can help us be more prolific with our craft as well as help grow our business.
This week's sense diary assignment:
Pick at least three things you do every day or every week and try to notice something you have never noticed before, using all your senses...
This doesn't mean you have to taste a tree when you're walking in the park, but maybe feel the bark, smell it if you don't care who may see you... and record your observations - the sounds you heard, things you tasted when eating a sandwich that you might usually scarf down because you have to get back to work, etc.
You can record these things three ways, or you can use all three. Sense diaries are all about what you want to include and how you want to include it. So you can make a list, write a paragraph or two, or you can make a sketch of the actual thing you noticed.
Don't forget to have fun... even though I am using the word... "assignment." *gulp* ;-)
