Mary's Twenty Things

At Grind Writers today we wrote to a prompt which came from Lois Peterson's 101 & More Writing Exercises. 

Exercise #18, pg. 11. Prompt: Make a list of 20 things that you know a lot about.

MARY'S TWENTY 

1. Identifying West Coast weeds (as opposed to vegetables or flowers)
2. The smell of the Pacific Ocean
3. Mixed media techniques
4. Myers Briggs personality type
5. How to visit someone in hospital
6. Planning workshops, leading meetings
7. Labyrinths
8. Cooking soup from whatever you have around
9. bglttti2sqq issues
10. Being friendly
11. Unitarian churches
12. Kitsilano
13. The smell of a boy-child's scalp after sweating
14. How to set up a Google group
15. Pagan rituals
16. Ecological despair
17. Housing co-ops—plus, minus, and interesting
18. Great arts and culture opportunities in Vancouver for free or cheap
19. Traffic circle gardens
20. Being mary/merry