I is for I

The letter I is an overburdened letter because we love to talk and write about ourselves. Every time I hear a news story on the radio, get an email, read a billboard, I think, maybe I could go live there, maybe I could go do that. In the last week I have considered:

1. buying a groupon (wasn't fast enough). iFail.

2. moving to Montana

3. applying for a job in Kuwait

4. applying for Fullbright scholarship

5. teaching English in Nepal, Guatemala, Cyprus

6. returning to school

7. starting a lit magazine

8. staying in Chicago

9. moving to a monastery

10. buying a garden

11. starting a writing center

12. buying a farm

H is Hover Vase

An invention that will never be invented but should be: the hover vase.

The idea: when someone gives you a gift of a bouquet of living, temporary, delicious, flowers, with petals, stamens, leaves you put them in water in a hover vase. The hover vase would then follow you around so you could admire their ephemeral beauty through out the day and night.

The idea in Beta: carrying your flowers with you.