Adventure Bag

"Do you realize if we played by the rules right now we'd be in gym?"—Ferris Bueller

First there was a cryptic email from my dear friend J.: "Do you like dragons or modernistic pink blobs?" J. is crafty [a trait I admire as i am totally not] and so I had some idea where she was going with this. I answered "dragons." A few weeks later, and a few days after I'd lost my job, her package arrived. She'd made me a tote bag from scratch, and included a card that read "Happy Spring!" It had been mailed before I got the axe, so the card didn't say "Here's something I made with love to cheer you up at a sucky time!" but that's what i read. 

Here it is:

In my new life at a strange time, her gift has become my Adventure Bag. It's roomy enough to carry my writing/scrapbook, a magazine or other reading material, and a bottle of water, but is light enough to not feel cumbersome. Adventure Bag was born from creativity and now stimulates my creativity. Adventure Bag turns a relatively simple excursion into something special: an hour spent reading at Starbucks, a trip to a museum, an afternoon movie is now an adventure because Adventure Bag make me feel free and expansive. They're adventures because wherever I am at that time is a place i wouldn't have been before, because I would have been at work. I'm off the grid now, I'm not playing by the rules anymore. I'm Ferris Bueller, having adventures! Adventure bag helps me feel alive and optimistic and incredibly grateful. Happy Spring!