Create notes of kindness
Where is despair telling stories in your world? What tiny bit of goodness might you create to counterbalance those tales? Write words that will inspire others to hold on to hope.
Leave your notes in unexpected places
Hit the town and place your notes in places they're likely to be found — your local coffeeshop, on your next flight, on the mirror of a public restroom — wherever you want to leave behind a little kindness.
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How it all started
Help the Greenpoint Soup Kitchen »One day, I found a random note in a coffeeshop, a hateful tirade directed at anyone who might be compassionate towards the homeless. Around the corner, crowds of gawkers gathered outside the loft where Heath Ledger had been found dead, some having their pictures taken among the double parked news trucks.
While the crowds and the note may have seemed much smaller to me any other day, they happened to occur at a very difficult time in my life, and made me question why I bothered to keep going in the face of such blatant lack of compassion. I felt like hope was slipping through my fingertips, and so I decided to do something about it.
I wrote a hopeful note, and stuck it back where I had found the hateful one.
Later that night, on the phone with a friend, I decided to write more hope notes and leave them in random places. She promised she’d write notes too and scatter them around her city. We said good-bye, both feeling, in her words, a little bit more human. More grounded in the story of kindness holding us all.
The next day, we wrote about it on our blogs and inadvertently inspired others who heard about it to do the same in their cities. My inbox was flooded with messages from people who were inspired by this simple act of kindness. So, I decided to start a website to share the idea with others. I hope you'll be part of it, too.
Who made this
My name is Krystyn. I'm Senior Designer at Squarespace, the best web publishing platform on the planet. I love jukeboxes, curly braces, handclaps, comically false eyelashes, vespas, somersaults, spook show movies, NYC and random acts of kindness.
You can learn more about me and what I'm up to on my site at Curly Braces.