Fun things to do on a winter’s day
- Put on some old clothes and a raincoat and go for a walk in the rain.
- Throw a tennis ball as high as you can and try to catch it. Or just watch it fall.
- Walk around on a freezing cold day in shorts and T-shirt and pretend you’re a Tibetan Lama.
- Kick a football in the backyard.
- Leave a saucer of milk on your front doorstep, even if you don’t own a cat.
- Write a letter to someone selected at random from the phone book.
- Go to the library and select a book at random and open it to any page at random and see if there is anything interesting written on that page. If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.
- Lie FLAT on your back under the shade of a huge, old tree. Simply stare at the blueness of the sky. Let yourself dissolve into that blueness. Ask yourself why the sky is blue anyway. Realise that you are one tiny speck in something so vast you could never grasp it. Don’t try to grasp it. Let you mind go totally blank (this will be much easier for some than others). Feel your spirit being drawn into the blueness. Let it be drawn. Meditate on the interconnectedness of everything. After a few hours, try testing if your arms and legs and brain are still functioning. If so, you may need a little longer.
- Try this same exercise at night replacing the word "blue" with "black".
- Alternatively, paint your ceiling black and add some white spots to represent the stars. Then turn out the lights.
- Watch a video about sun-drenched islands in the middle of a vast blue ocean. Alternatively, imagine you are on such an island and someone is recording it on video.