Summer Harvest

Tim’s starting a “Skills Bank,” which I think is an excellent idea. Without further ado, here are the skills I value and enjoy. I encourage any of my readers to participate as well.

- Cooking (all kinds, including Vegetarian and Vegan)
- Application of Gnostic Philosophy to Reality Interface
- Communications (writing/radio)
- Tarot Card Readings
- Meditation
- Fortean Studies/Occultism

Here are the Instructions, from Tim’s site:

Create a list of all the skills you as a person have. Let’s tentatively define a “skill” as the practical application of a specialized area of knowledge which causes an identifiable (positive) effect within reality. That’s not too “out there” is it? I threw a couple qualifiers in there to keep us on target, but the big one we’re going to need to incorporate into our skill inventories is this: only include items which you love doing. So if you know how to fix a flat tire, but you hate doing that, then don’t include it in your list. Simple, right?

What I’m planning on doing for myself is to publish this “skills inventory” as a permanent page on my blog. I would like to encourage other people to do the same - if they’re interested. Basically what you are doing is saying: this is what I love to do, and if you need help doing this or just want to talk about it, I would love to do so. It’s very simple and quite easy to put together, and it will take us a step closer to realizing what our own values are, and how to align ourselves more effectively with people whose values we share, or who we would like to share values with.

Inspirations for this concept came to me from people listing movies they have seen on their websites, or writing “100 things about me” type pieces.

If you’d like to take part in this activity, I invite you to do so. Use whatever format makes sense to you, and if you like, link back to this post so people browsing your skills inventory can see what the inspiration and underlying intention of it is. Maybe also include the phrase “skills inventory” for easy googling. Thanks!