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December 30, 2008 9 Comments

It's Almost Here: The Return of MMM!

In a very short time, we’ll ring in 2009.To help launch the New Year and its accompanying resolutions, I’ll be hosting:

Mega Memory Month: January Edition

This is not the announcement.

This is just a teaser–January 1st is MMM Opening Day!

If you’re new to Mega Memory Month, you can familiarize yourself by visiting the initial post for the first-ever MMM in October 2008.Each person determined what “mega” meant personally. As I pointed out a few posts ago, some participants, with more nimble minds offering greater capacity, tackled vast swaths of Scripture; while a few of us nibbled what tidbits we could. Regardless of the actual serving size, I believe we all feasted. We stretched ourselves. We swallowed as much as our systems could handle, and were nourished.

Most people chose a passage of Scripture, but I’m inviting and encouraging any category of memory work. If you would like to work on a poem, some music, a speech, or Scripture, it’s entirely up to you.

On January 1st, you can announce your own intentions, link to the host page here (scheduled to go live a few minutes after midnight EST), and dive right into another month of memorization accountability and encouragement.

A Sneak Preview and Unveiling: Below you’ll find the new-and-improved Mega Memory Month icon/button you can use for your own MMM posts. Grab it now to use in your blog’s introductory post on January 1st–you can link to the main MMM post that day ready to go (the button links to the January 1st post that isn’t yet published).

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I hope you’ll join me the month of January in another attempt at memorizing more than we thought possible.

Our minds can hold more than we think they can.

[*UPDATED TO EXPLAIN BUTTON* The image in the bloggy button is of CORAL. Not an actual brain.]

Filed Under: creativity, lifelong learning, mega memory month, memorization, mind, MMM, self-discovery, taking risks Tagged With: memorization, memorization techniques, Scripture memory

Comments

  1. L.L. Barkat says

    December 30, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    Okay, that picture has me stymied. First I thought “pasta.” Then “sea anemone.” Then, egads, “brain.”

    So tell me, what am I looking at? : )

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  2. Pauline says

    December 30, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Hi Ann

    I would love to be involved again as I have “stalled” a bit in my memorisation “O(.

    But I must share a poem here that we learned to show that all is not lost!

    A man on a length of elastic

    Decided to do something drastic

    When he jumped of the cliff he

    Came back in a jiffy

    And screamed to his friends

    Its FANTASTIC!

    See you in the New Year!

    HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

    (It is New Years eve here in Australia) and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Ann!

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  3. Pauline says

    December 30, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    Oh and I also needed to ask HOW do I get that MMM button onto my blog??? Thank you for helping a blogging challenged friend in need “O)

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  4. annkroeker says

    December 30, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    LL (and anyone else who’s feeling a little queasy): I forgot to mention that it is some kind of sea coral. I apologize if it’s too gross. I thought it was beautiful and cool. Now I question my artistic judgment–I’d better start hiring out my blog-button creations!

    Pauline: Love the poem! (I explained “grabbing the bloggy button” to her via e-mail, but for anyone else with the same question…) Basically do a cut-and-paste of the button in much the same way you might cut and paste text from a website. I use the right-click feature of my mouse and choose “copy” (as opposed to “copy shortcut”). Then I open a new post and make sure my cursor is in the block of text where I would compose the post and right-click to choose “paste.” The button *should* appear.

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  5. Teresa says

    December 30, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Ann,

    A great idea and I am going to participate. I don’t know if I have actually tried memorizing anything since college. My brain is out of practice.

    Hope you all are doing great. I heard the Elton John song Daniel today and it made me think of your family.

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  6. jen@Balancing Beauty and Bedlam says

    December 31, 2008 at 8:37 am

    As one who firmly believes in the Classical Model of Education and knows how much potential our brains have for memorizing – this is an awesome idea. Now does that mean I will participate….no promises. (How’s that for a cop out?) 🙂

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  7. Jennifer says

    December 31, 2008 at 8:41 am

    We can’t wait!! (And I love the new button! :)) Thanks for hosting this again!

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  8. shepherdsgrace says

    December 31, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Looking forward to a fresh start with new purpose and determination….

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  9. Kara-Noel says

    December 31, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Found your blog while blog hopping. This sounds great. I hope to be involved too. I have always had the gigantor goal of memorizing a (small) book of the Bible.

    http://elislids.blogspot.com/

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