I’ve got heavy love for this quote from Ray Bradbury and I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape. –Ray Bradbury

So it made me wonder, what is it I’m stuffing myself full of? What is it I love? What inspires me, even if indirectly?

For the next several weeks and quite possibly longer I plan to write about those things that I love, why I love them, and how they further my education in mastering storytelling and writing. And if you’re willing, I’d like to see you do the same.

I’m going to tag posts about things I love with the hashtag #thingsilove on Twitter, or for you WordPress users, tag it “things i love” in your tags section. If you would like, you can pingback to this post so I can come read about the things you love and how they inspire you.

What I’m hoping to gain from this post and hopefully your posts is not just insight into what we love and why, but perhaps new loves we’d never considered before.

If you do write a things I love post that I find particularly inspiring, entertaining, or just plain wonderful, I’ll link to your post here and send some blog love your way. Feel free to use the things i love graphic in your post if you’re not the graphic creating type.

THINGS I LOVE

I’ll start this off with something simple. I love finding out about new things to love. I remember awhile ago Daphne posted a picture of this astronomical clock in Prague. I’d never once before in my life heard of this clock and now I can’t imagine my life before it. My imagination swells at its very existence and I know someday it will part of one of my stories.

Getting into blogging has enabled me to stuff myself full of new inspirations, as Mr. Bradbury suggests, unlike ever before. Yes I learn a lot about new things via Facebook, Twitter, etc. But it’s those carefully written posts I’ve read for the sake of seeing what’s happening that lead me to new discoveries.

Another blog I follow wrote about a tradition they have in Manitou Springs, Colorado where they hold coffin racing. Why? Due to local Emma Crawford whose coffin went sailing down Red Mountain in 1929 after a rainstorm. How cool is that?! (Lots more awesome details at this blog.)

The blogosphere is beautiful fodder for imaginative minds.

Tomorrow, I begin with something I love dearly and I’m sure many of you do too: Farscape. See you then!

But before you go, I really, really do want to hear about those things you love. Will you commit to doing at least one blog post about something you love? I want to know why it inspires you. Why do you love it? I look forward to seeing your posts. Again, pingback here, tag it with WordPress or using the hashtag #thingsilove on Twitter. I hope to see your posts soon.