My Month of Groovy Geekery!! (what does being a geek mean to YOU?)

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.  Brown paper packages tied up with strings.  These are a few of my favorite things." - "My Favorite Things" from "the Sound of Music"

Favorite things are what light you up on a gloomy day.  Things that jazz you, get you excited about being a sentient being on this big, blue marble.

Favorite things get you goosey.  They can also make you a geek if they become heightened and taken into your soul.

No, not the "biting the heads of chickens" kind of geekery.  I'm talking about when people really delve into a topic so thoroughly they can taste it.  Things that make you a little bit of a freak.  I'm talking full absorption into a certain thing that ignites, inspires, and makes a day a journey into creativity and play, rather than a walk through the doldrums.  Things that actually redefine "favorite".  Things that become necessities.

Last week, I asked some Facebook friends to define geekery for me.  Some of the responses:

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  "Generally a geek is considered as someone that has excessive knowledge and enthusiasm towards a specialized subject / activity. "
• "Geek, real geek, to me, has always been people who think outside the norm in everything but sports (because they have their own lingo). Who's creativity in their chosen interest is unlimited."

  "Geek: one who has a deep and abiding passion and completist level of knowledge about some subject be it theatre, SFF, a particular tv show, knitting, etc..."
• "Geekiness is beyond fandom. It's total immersion in a subject matter, to the extent that you want to know as much about it as you can. You form passionate opinions about the topic. Your tribe becomes your fellow geeks."
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  •  "It means different things different people and each group feels they have it right. I have to agree with the nerdest definition. It means really loving something and pursuing it with passion. You can be a movie geek, computer geek, sports geek,etc"
•  "Everyone is a geek."

As you can see, the question elicited a lot of responses.  And, you know, they're all right, really.

What do I geek out about?  Oh, colorful, whimsical, beautiful things.  Like Disney, beagles, England, Monty Python, vintage clothing, tarot ... the list goes on for quite a while.

The list goes on for at least a month.  So that's what I'll do with that period of time: relish something I geek over each day for the entire month of February.  I challenge you to do something similar.  After all, it's a cold, short month.  Why not give it a little love?

Truth be told, I'm already two days in, with little Facebook posts about 80s pop music and videos, and "Downton Abbey".  I won't be doing a blog post for each thing because, frankly, I don't have the emotional bandwidth for it these days, especially with what I'm dealing with with Daddy.  But I CAN, at the very least, publicly acknowledge those things on Facebook I get grooved about in a sticky, gooey, "all in" sort of way. It's a form of gratitude work.  It's thanking God for giving me those connections with places, people and things that make my heart sing.  I think it's a healthy way to check in, especially near your birthday.  And especially when you're going to be celebrating a 52nd birthday, when you supposedly press a "reset button".  It's my way of claiming, "These things make me the me I wish to keep around for the next 52 years."

These are the things that stay.  These are the things that matter.

What I geek out about the most?  This guy.