Hope Notes
From now through April 1st, I encourage you to create a stackful of notes with messages of hope and leave them in public places.
Blog about it. Tell your friends and family about it. Post photos of your notes to the hopeREVO Flickr group.
Or be completely anonymous.
Follow your own heart.
It’s turned out that I’ve needed to blog less for a little while. I’ve just been overwhelmed by stress-y thing. Yuck!
I refuse to stress about not posting in my totally-for-fun blog, though!
…I’m reading right now:
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks
This book is full of Rumi’s poetry, of course, but it also has all sorts of commentary from Coleman Barks. I didn’t know this when I first picked up the book and at first started to skip the intro. But something made me go back and I’m glad I did. It’s very interesting and engaging and even…funny!
This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love by Tama J. Kieves
This book is excellent. I haven’t finished it, but I’m already recommending it to certain people. I’m in the process of radically changing what I do during the day and how I make money. It’s a confusing, scary, wonderful, weird, totally baffling, messy, insane process. This book describes that process in an honest, compassionate, and helpful way. It’s about taking yourself from a life that is just wasting time to a really fulfilling existence.
Okay, even I can’t read ALL the time, so I’m guessing that you folks might voluntarily shut the covers from time to time as well… What else do you do with your leisure to pass the time? Walk the dog? Knit? Run marathons? Construct grandfather clocks? Collect eggshells?
So today’s Booking Through Thursday is not about books! =O *dramatic music swells*
There are SO many things I like to do and am interested in that I am always wishing for more time in the day. Here are some of the things I enjoy, other than books:
Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it. – Emily Hilburn Sell
I know you may not have read all the comments on my recent Love Project #1 post, so I wanted to share this from you. It comes from Val Webb, who has a beautiful blog.
When cruise ships are leaving the docks in New Orleans, they sail past a big old vacant warehouse where someone has painted YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL in giant letters across the entire side of the building. I love that! This is the same sort of project… a wonderful idea! I’ll definitely try it.
And look! I found a picture.
Just had to share this cute photo I spotted. Click for more by this photographer. =)
Here’s the project. Consider giving it a go!
Make a small sign. It can be hand-lettered, printed out, colorful, simple, in many languages, tiny, ornate - anything. The sign will say something encouraging like:
There is nothing wrong with you.
You are wonderful.
I’m glad you are you.
Etc.
Attach this sign to a mirror in a bathroom where it will be seen. It can be a public bathroom, one at your job or school, or even your own bathroom at home.
The rules are:
The message must be kind and loving.
The sign must be attached in a way that is easy to remove and doesn’t damage anything. It wouldn’t be very loving to make a maintenance person scrape glue off a mirror, would it?
Your sign might be there for 10 minutes or 10 weeks. The point is that you put a little love out there.
If you participate, I’d love to hear about it either in the comments or email! (See my email address in the sidebar)
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
I have often heard people rave about this project, but I just never took the time to check it out for more than a second. until now. It really does look great. They have been 68 assignments so far.
Go check it out and maybe you’ll be inspired to accept one of the assignments. If you do, please let me know so I can see the results!
You’ll be given love
you’ll be taken care of
you’ll be given love
you have to trust it
Maybe not from the sources
you have poured yours
Maybe not from the directions
you are staring at
Trust your head around
it’s all around you
all is full of love
all around you
All is full of love : you just ain’t receiving
All is full of love : your phone is off the hook
All is full of love : your doors are all shut
All is full of love
~Bjork
Oops. I accidentally took a blog break there.
I’m back. Happy February!
February is going to be Love Month here at TreehouseJukebox. But not in the overdone only-roses-and-diamonds-prove-love sense. Nope.
There are so many things to love in the universe - in so many ways.
