Find something beautiful that nobody else has noticed. Photograph it. Leave it where it is. Tell someone about it using only hand gestures.
Every quest begins with a question you didn't know you had.
The best adventures are the ones that happen between the planned ones.
Walk without a destination. Turn left whenever you feel uncertain. Stop when something surprises you. This is how all the best maps were made.
Note to self: the compass points toward curiosity, not north.
Previous quests, completed and uncompleted alike, rest here. Each one changed someone, even if only slightly. Especially the failures.
Learn three words in a language you'll never be fluent in. Use them in conversation today.
Filed under: small acts of improbable beauty.
Things discovered along the way. A button from a stranger's coat. A receipt from 1987. A perfectly round stone. Each one is evidence that the world is paying attention.
Object #19: A folded paper crane found on a park bench, slightly damp from morning dew. Origin unknown. Purpose: obvious.
The space between quests is where the interesting things happen. Like finding a door in a wall you've passed a hundred times. Like hearing your name in a language you don't speak.
Addendum: All quests are ad hoc. That's the whole point.
You've found the quest board. Scroll around. Hover over things. Click the pins at the edges. Every card is a doorway to an improvised adventure.
Ad hoc: formed for a particular purpose. But what if the purpose forms itself as you go? What if the quest creates the quester? These are not rhetorical questions. Write your answers on the back of a napkin.
The Latin root means "to this" -- directed toward the immediate, the present, the now. Every ad hoc solution is a love letter to the current moment.