Spread hope!
While reading the always inspiring blog of Emma, I came across this Hope Revo project and I was instantly inspired. However going from inspiration to action always takes a decade for me (I have severe procrastination issues) so I still haven’t done much more than the brainstorming that I did on the first day that I saw read the site and found out that the idea of the project is to create notes to hide around your city, notes that people will find and hopefully be encouraged and strengthened by. The notes can be short or long, they can be simply written or be a decorated. Here are some of the messages I’ve come up with:
Thanks to my crafty tendencies, I have a whole bunch of supplies that I could use for this project and I can share how the process goes on Getting Crafty. First I need some dedicated time where I turn OFF the computer and refuse to read other blogs and get messy with my scissors, glue and perhaps even glitter.
If you live somewhere where the snow has been coming down nonstop, and more snow is predicted in the coming days, wouldn’t joining this project be a perfect way to brighten the days of neighbours, fellow commuters or others who are probably thinking “will this snow ever end? Will spring ever come?”
Some places where I will be putting my hope notes:
- bus shelters
- in the elevators at work
- in the bathroom at work
- at the self checkout station for library books
Got any more good places I can hide my notes?
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
[...] have a new project! I would love to get started on it this week but this is a busy week in the world of [...]
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Stick them in library books that are on the shelves, just random ones.
I did that with my poems at my school’s library.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
[...] This is the rarest of birds: a brand-new idea to me. I found myself quite taken with the concept of papering my town with glitter-inundated and beribboned “hope notes.” [...]
March 17th, 2008 at 7:07 am
[...] are lovely by Jummy I made the first five hope notes to distribute and I have some great ideas of where to post them. I’m hoping I can do this [...]
March 19th, 2008 at 7:26 am
[...] had received a suggestion to put one in a library book, and I will definitely do that with one of the books I’ll be returning to the library later [...]
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I’m behind on blogs and look what I missed! Awesome!!
August 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Wow,
what a great piece of paper filled with wisdom and things that will benefit our lives and lives of other people as well.