Is Adventure Gone

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The 10-Minute Adventure Club (Yes, Your Street Counts)

If you haven’t picked it up yet, lately, more and more of my thoughts have been how the world around us feels like one long shout—headlines stacking up, politics playing tug-of-war, neighbors picking sides. It’s a lot, I know… But right alongside the noise is something stubbornly good: ordinary beauty. EVERYWHERE… It’s on the sidewalk, in the way morning light hits a window, in the hello from the person walking their dog who insists it’s “really the dog walking me.”

Adventure doesn’t have to mean plane tickets or summit photos, though I do love me a good summit or two. Adventure can also be a slow lap around the block with your senses turned up. Beauty and adventure can come down to the size of a dandelion growing through a crack in the curb. I mean, talk about strength right, this little seed found the smallest piece of earth and said “I will grow here and create beauty and color and magic.” And if a seed floating through the air can do that, imagine what YOU have the ability to do?!?!?

This Week’s Tiny Adventure Plan

Try this any day you need a reset:

1. Pick a 10-minute loop. Walk slower than you think you should.

2. Choose a theme—only circles, only shadows, or only the color green—and see how many you can spot.

3. Do a 5-4-3-2-1 “awe scan.” Name 5 things you see, 4 you hear, 3 you feel, 2 you smell, 1 you taste. Linger on the surprising ones.

4. Take one photo. Just one. Title it with a verb + feeling: Leaning, quietly.

5. Write a one-line note when you get home: “Beauty found: sunlight jittering on a mailbox at 7:12am.”

Neighborhood Beauty Scavenger Hunt

Add Some Fun Into The Next Walk - Spot any three (bonus points for all):

• A color you don’t have a name for

• A shadow that looks like a map

• Something repaired instead of replaced

• A sound that makes you pause (wind in leaves, sneakers on gravel)

• Evidence of kindness (a lifted trash bin lid, chalk hearts, painted rocks etc.)

• A plant thriving where it “shouldn’t”, sort of like that dandelion…

• Texture that begs to be described (broken, peel, ripple, grain, patina)

Why This Matters (Especially Now)

When the world feels divided, attention is an act of repair. Noticing the small good doesn’t ignore the hard things; it equips us to face them with a more open heart. Slowing down calms the nervous system, softens our edges, and reminds us we belong to a place—and to each other, not one side or the other, but as a whole. Together.

Share the Adventure

Hit reply with your one-line beauty note or your single photo title. If you’re posting, use #10MinuteAdventure so we can find each other’s moments. Consider starting a “beauty jar” at home: one slip of paper per day with a tiny scene you loved. Read a handful on the tough days.

Simplicity in Closing

If the headlines feel loud, take your shoes for a quiet meeting with the sidewalk. Look for circles. Or shadows. Or green. Let ten minutes be enough—and watch how often it is.

Find your light again, it’s out there, waiting, one small adventure at a time.

NOTES FROM THE MIND

I’m unsure what tomorrow will bring, or where we will be. I’m unsure how to fall back into creating, exploring, adventuring. I’m hoping this is a start. A match lit, a flame to burn. Till next time, believe in the good and believe in the rainbow connection…

Until next time,

Quiet living. Loud adventures.