The Wednesday Wonder this week was about Pinatas:

1. Learn how to make a pinata and make one. Someone you know has a birthday around the corner, or you can just have a party to celebrate spring. If that doesn't snag your interest, play with making projects with papier-mache.

2. See, the human mind is kind of like...a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside.
Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.
~Jane Wagner, in the
Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe;
excerpted from 100 Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive

Do something completely outrageous this week. Make noise! Take up space. Blow your mind and see what happens.

Well, outrageous is relative, I suppose. The Rally of Writers I attended on Saturday was an all day event. Lunch was optional and an additional $15. While I can handle going to seminars alone, I didn't really want to eat alone within a large group of people. So at the lunch break I grabbed my camera and went over to the hotel's dining room. I stopped at the restroom first, and guess who was coming out? Mmmmhmmm....Dianne Hicks, the poet I had met on Friday at the bookstore. She was dining alone and asked if I would like to join her.

Normally I beg off from these situations. Normally. But this time, I broke the pinata and agreed.

Lunch was delightful. We were such a contrast, both about the same age but one an elegantly dressed black woman with wonderful gold elephant earrings and one an aging hippie-era white chick with wild hair, gauze shirt, and small turquoise earrings. She was so kind and so loving. And she was SO emphatic about the importance of stretching oneself.

As we went back to the seminar I chuckled to myself. I had had my own private author's luncheon. Cool!