Wow. I missed rabbit hole day, by two whole days. First and foremost a happy belated birthday to the late Lewis Carroll (yes, I think I'm done with the cheap jokes for the moment). It seems that I managed to dig so deep that I popped up on the otherside of reality in a mirror universe where I was doing work. Let's see how many dimensions I have to stack to get a parallel universe, in which I work incredibly hard and only real difference is that I seem to be wearing shoes.

The irony of my rabbit hole, is that it actually led me to wonderland. Several times over the course of the week my work has taken me back to the Chesire Cat (Warning: This image brought to you by American McGee), over and over again.

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

3 times this week has that quote slipped off my tongue, in 3 incredibly different contexts, and each time I become more aware of just how real intentionality can be (forgive the self-referential posting, sometimes I need to quote myself in order push my own religion).

The process to the achievement, from a modelling perspective become so clear. Magic is real, through the power of imagination and belief, everything that we touch is magical. There was that dude, with the crazy hair, Albert Einstein or something, who said "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle . The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Decide on your miracles, and then just watch them happen.

Next week, back to more scientific commentary. Too much woo-woo makes my head crazy.

From Dan Curtis Johnson: (Through the the invisible force that is Warren Ellis)

Let’s face it. You’re in a blog rut.

Most of the time, you write about more of the same kinda stuff that you usually write about.

Maybe it’s your day-to-day life, the stuff you did. Maybe it’s topical news response. Maybe it’s short fiction. Maybe it’s re-linking random stuff you see on the internet. Maybe it’s LOLCAT porn. (I hope it’s not LOLCAT porn.) Maybe it’s here on LiveJournal, or it’s over on Vox, or Blogspot or Blogger or Blogblog or Postablogablowablog, or WordPress or Facebook or FacePress or FacePlant or maybe it’s just your Twitter account. It’s what you’re comfortable with, I know, I know…

…but why not try doing something different, just for a day?

Two weeks from today, Tuesday January 27th, is Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday. Carroll, you’ll recall, wrote about a girl who fell down a rabbit hole and found herself in a place where all the rules had changed. In two weeks, on Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday, you should do the same.

That’s right: the 5th Annual Rabbit Hole Day is coming.

When you wake up on the 27th, instead of writing about your usual work and school and politics and friends and news and stuff, experience life down the Rabbit Hole and write about the work, the school, the politics, the friends, the news, the stuff that you find there instead. Travel through time. Turn into an animal. Flee from assassins. Talk to your goldfish. Conquer Greenland. Sprout some extra limbs. Learn how to walk on water. Marry an insect.

Take a break from the Every Day and write about your Rabbit Hole Day. Your normal life will be waiting for you when you get back.

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I accept your challenge, let's so how far down the rabbit hole really goes.