Saturday, January 1, 2022

Out with the old, in with 2022!

 Hello wonderful people who are probably not here reading this! Who cares, I don't do this for you all anyways, but if you are here welcome! I am so glad to be here with you in 2022, and I have some great stuff coming up! I am also happy because these blogs will only be three a month again instead of four some months, and three others. However, I do have some really fun, project happening this year so lets go ahead a jump right into what we are doing this year!



So, we are continuing the Wizard of Oz Themes projects this year with three new characters. They are Joy, inspired by the Munchkins, Confidence, inspired by the Apple Trees, and Discover, inspired by the Yellow Brick Road. Now, I tried very hard to make this not so complicated like I did with a few of mine from last year, but that didn't go as planned. I have a few complications with one of these but really it's more complicated that it sounds!



Joy is one of those things that you think you have when you are happy. However, Joy is more just happiness. It's there when you are happy, sad, hurt, there is something about joy that can change the outlook. It's always associated with hope and peace as well. The Joy Project is going to be called "Let the Joyous New Be Spread". So, finding the little things in life that bring you Joy is something that always comes to my mind. Like when I am in Downtown Knoxville, I always think of the noise the bricks make when you walk on them, pulling the string on the Trolley to make when you need to get off, the smell of a honeysuckle vine. I mean it's the little things in life right? Towards the end of last year I realized that there was a few funny national holidays that I thought would be fun to celebrate. Those national holidays only really are around to celebrate the little things. So, I went through some calendars that had them listed and picked out one fun day to celebrate every month. I have found movies that associate with these fine things and it will be fun just to do for a day. 



You can not tell me that when Dorothy starts her trip down the yellow brick road that she does not discover a few things along the way! The Yellow Brick Road is as big as a character in the movie as Dorothy herself is. You say "Yellow Brick Road" and everyone knows what you are talking about which is way the project is called "Follow the Yellow Brick Road". I am very excited about this project because past Daisy already did most of the work. A few years back, local Historian Jack Neely wrote a book called Historic Knoxville. It has all of the statues, landmarks, historic homes, in all of Knoxville. The book is well put together and sections off by homes, cemeteries, and things of that nature. Past Daisy wanted to see all of the things in the book and went ahead a made a google doc that had where all of the things were closest to each other and made a guide to be followed to see everything. Past Daisy didn't get much of a chance to go discover these things because, Covid. So, to my surprise Present Daisy went to go look at that old google doc and found that it's was already divided into 12 sections. So, one section a month for every month and it's going to be great! The coolest little known thing about Knoxville is that it's got a huge art history. There have been so many movies, tv shows, actors, directors, producers, artist, musicians that are from Knoxville, and so many people don't know! So, I made a list of 12 people in movies who are from Knoville, and will watch a film they are in or, that they produced or directed, and will review it! The list of 12 is not even everyone that is from here but it's going to be wonderful!


 


Confidence is by far the most complicated project I have going to me so far. I think I really like making things harder on myself. The reason the Apple Tree are the ones to represent confidence is because they are the only being's in Oz that like themselves so much that they are offended by almost anything anyone says or does to them. At one point they turn to Dorothy and Scarecrow and say "You think my apple aren't what they Ought to be" and that is now I came up with the name "What Ought To Be". Things that I ought to be doing to help my confidence instead of ignoring them. This is also not just in looking good, this is in being a more rounded human. Like in cooking, in dressing up, in looking people in the eyes. I made a list of 12 things I want to work on every month to be more confident in myself. You will get that list, and what else comes with it, when I post about the first month.


So, for whoever is still here I hope you will enjoy my next year of crazy. I already feel like I am behind and I just got started. 

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