Finch's Rules For Wandering

Hey sister, 

This is almost what we practice. 

We wander with much the same guidelines:

• We use a map of Little Libraries as goals, but no carved-in-stone route
• Strict Finch's Rules wandering would mean no phones to get us there, but I can not be trusted with a paper map
• We alternate choosing places to go and are willing to go where the road takes us--grand, small, bizarre, beautiful, ugly, and surprising
• At each site we leave something, as an offering--our booklet

Finch's Rules for Wandering is an excerpt from a book called "All The Bright Places". We'll have to keep an eye out for it in a Little Library.  ---Sister -R-       

FINCH’S RULES FOR WANDERING

1) There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is

2) But there are three “guidelines” (which sounds less rigid than “rules”):

a) No using our phones to get us there. We have to do this strictly old-school, which means learning to read actual maps.

b) We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.

c) At each site, we leave something, almost like an offering. It can be our own private game of geocaching (“the recreational activity of hunting for and finding a hidden object by mans of GPS coordinates posted on a website”), only not a gamed just for us.
The rules of geocaching say “take something, leave something”. The way I figure it, we stand to get something out of each place, so why not give something back?
Also, it’s a way to prove we’ve been there, and a way to leave a part of us behind.