Monday Ripples: Hanging Out with Your Inner Child

â┚¬Å”The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them â┚¬Ëœgrow up'.â┚¬Â â┚¬â€œ Ursula K. LeGuin

This past week, my co-workers and I participated in Chalk the Walks, a day on which people everywhere drew and wrote positive things on their sidewalk, driveways and walkways. Organizers of the event, The Joy Team, made their initiative a movement through social media by asking participants to hashtag photographs on Twitter and tag them on Facebook.

When you get down to it, it's a simple way to spread a little happiness in the world. I submit that it is downright impossible to draw on the sidewalk with chalk and not get giggly. We were chalking â┚¬Å”on the jobâ┚¬Â so it lent a light tone to the day that spilled into the rest of our week.

Can taking part in something like this change the world? I'm convinced of it, but I'll let you pick up the chalk next year and find out. Better yet, don't wait: chalk your walk right now.

Today's Ripples are inspired by my chalk adventure; the timing is pretty keen too since Watermark's fall arts issue comes out this week. I've found a few links related to creativity and tapping into your inner child â┚¬â€œ which we usually find is always lurking beneath the surface, longing to be beckoned.

Go. Click. Play.

Ground Control to Major Tom
Planet SARK
When I think of creativity, childhood, and more specifically recapturing the two, I think of SARK. I got to wondering what happened to the copies of her books I had. Probably in a fit of cleaning and an overdose of adulthood, I tossed them. So I jumped on one of my favorite playthings, Bing, and found out SARK is online and has created herself an entire planet. We can even follow her on Facebook and Twitter. Let me level with you and say that your first reaction to SARK may be to roll your eyes, but I urge you to linger and your heart will enjoy a little massage. I'm so happy to rediscover her through the internetâ┚¬Â¦which didn't even exist when I first experienced of her.

There's a Kid Inside
10 Ways to Be the Person You Wanted to Be as a Kid
This one is the Ripple that keeps on Ripplin' because you'll find links to other resources within this posting on Tiny Buddha. In this wonderful piece of writing, Lori Deschene explains how everything you needed to know you learned in kindergarten, if you will. Surprisingly, she has touched on many keys to living well in this essay and you will want to â┚¬Å”come out and playâ┚¬Â by the end of your read.

Paint It Up!
The Good Bike
I'll be honest with you, I can't completely explain the significance of this link. My other half, Brendan â┚¬â€œ you remember the one who rescues chairs from the trash, decorates them and puts them at bus stops for people to sit on â┚¬â€œ suggested this as a Ripple. So, go along with me here, as kids we didn't really have to know exactly why something was intriguing, right? I'm not exactly sure why painting an old bike and sticking it various places in your city is a good idea, but on the same token it does sound like a good idea and I'll be following these folks.

Follow Me, Up & Down
Scottie Saves the World on Facebook | Scottie Campbell on Twitter