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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Maps Anyone?


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I've previously posted this on my own blog: it's a map of my childhood home, an exercise I did in my weekly clinical counseling training. It might tell you something about me, your neighbor at # 9, and if it does, I don't mind at all.
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But I have bigger fish to fry. I am posting this map today because I would love to see a map of Blogland Lane. I don't mean who lives where, per se, but we now have a playground, a music hall, a store, a fairground. We have mountains and lakes and oceans and fields. Maybe we'll have dog parks and bike trails and a village shopping center.
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One thing we have for sure is an overspill of creativity, imagination and good will.
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SO WHO'S WILLING
TO TAKE
AN ARTISTIC TURN
AT DRAWING
A MAP
OF BLOGLAND LANE?
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Wouldn't it be cool if several of us took to our pencils or photoshop or what ever and shared our images and visions of how we see this community of ours? Lolo? Mim? Caroline? Pieterbie? Babs? Sonia? Etc. Etc.
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Just thinking, as usual.....
xoxo
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18 comments:

  1. Leigh RussellSeptember 9, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    Sorry, Karen - I have NO spatial awareness at all. I even got hopelessly lost in the toilets at one of the airports we signed at. Every door I opened seemed to lead to a cupboard. I just couldn't remember where the exit was. In the end I waited until someone else left and followed her out . . . so maps are a bit of a no-no for me. I'd get everything upside down and back to front. I suppose you could always look at mmy map in a mirror . . .

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  2. Annie JeffriesSeptember 9, 2009 at 11:36 AM

    Good idea but I'm not good at puzzles and this would be a BIG one (for me anyway). It will be fun to see the end result if someone steps up.

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  3. kjSeptember 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM

    help! help!

    :)

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM

    I love love love your map!!!!
    Pattee

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  5. kjSeptember 9, 2009 at 7:02 PM

    attention! attention! calling all artists! calling all artists!

    pattee, thanks, doing this map was quite enlightening. i recommended it if you're interested. xo

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  6. studio loloSeptember 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM

    Not only can't I read a map, I can never refold the bugger either.

    This map would be a huge undertaking KJ. It's a wonderful idea, but dang, 100 houses and various other places!
    Maybe there's a landscape architect among us who knows CAD? That would be the program needed, and the skills!

    Sorry. Will you still be my pal?

    xoxo

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    What a lovely map!! I would love to see something like that for our Blogland Lane too!

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  8. kjSeptember 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM

    darling lo, who says every house needs to be on the map?

    i won't give up. i'm tenacious. maybe it will get drawn in october somehow...

    and i'm your pal no matter what. i'm tenacious about that too!!

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  9. MarionSeptember 10, 2009 at 4:52 PM

    I've thought about a map for Blogland Village, kj, as well. I get boggled at all the different landscapes, oceans and mountains, etc. there are. I have to do a lot more thinking and a whole lot more reading of this blog on this, but there must be a way.

    Maybe we could just leave those things out? Or just show some? Still thinking...

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  10. Debra KaySeptember 11, 2009 at 8:07 AM

    I don't think it has to be a literal map showing each home in relation to the other...more of a map mashup-showing all the wonderful things we have here.

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  11. laughingwolfSeptember 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    lol... what a nightmare that would be to draw!

    likely take months to put together, but would love to see it :)

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  12. CarolineSeptember 11, 2009 at 11:42 PM

    Nice idea kj, but I think I agree with laughingwolf - too big an undertaking for me at the moment! Sorry!!

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  13. CarolineSeptember 11, 2009 at 11:45 PM

    P.S. kj, any idea why this blog doesn't show up with a name in the reader or my dashboard - I've just got a dot '.' instead of 'Blogland Lane' ?

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  14. MimSeptember 12, 2009 at 2:51 AM

    October sounds good.

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  15. ~BabsSeptember 12, 2009 at 9:49 PM

    My boyfriend, while traveling, no longer asks me to read the map. When he asks how far it is to the next place, my reply is always: "oh,,,about a quarter of an inch."
    I'll just sharpen the pencils and let someone else draw maps. Sorry.

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  16. unmitigated meSeptember 13, 2009 at 9:16 AM

    I am unemployed, and need something creative to do between job hunting bouts. As no one has dropped a literary agent down my chimney, I will make an attempt at the map. Progress reports are coming...

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  17. kjSeptember 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM

    OH! OH! MIDDLE! YAY!

    i may take a stab at it too if i can carve some light time out. i can't wait to see what you come up with!!!! and now debra kay has found the bogs and elves in the northeast corner...magic magic everywhere....

    xoxo

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  18. pieterbieSeptember 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM

    Hmm, maps, I like the way you draw yours.
    I'd be no good at that, I'd sit down behind the PC and make it all too complicated again.

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