I liked the suggestion in the prompt regarding items that could be put in a time capsule. I remember doing writing activities like that when I was a kid. Another one was what ten things would you take for a year to survive on a desert island.
These exercises fire the imagination and begin to create the ideas of lives and futures – even if fictional – that’d otherwise be hidden from us.
Anyway, here’s my ten items to put in a time capsule:
- A photograph of a toucan.
- A spoon I placed in my neighbour’s flowerbed for about five minutes.
- A signed copy of ‘Tick Tock Ping A Ding’ by King Henry X.
- A packed lunch with some used staples.
- A spanner with a small engraving of a shamrock.
- A shamrock with several large engravings of spanners.
- Geoff/Jeff.
- Eagle Sawdust Soundclub Track.
- A well acted scene from 4 films: you decide.
- Crafty Lalbanor and his guide to packing spoons, shamrocks, staples and other stuff in time capsules.
The metal box that contains these items shall have a label on the front that reads ‘Open on 27th November 2156 or before if you want to watch Cagney and Lacey’.
The box will be buried by a rocky outcrop on some faraway moon about 3 minutes from my dad’s t-shirts.
It will be opened in a time of peace.