How it all started
One surreal day, I decided to start a hope revolution in the middle of the street. I was in lower Manhattan, surrounded by crowds of gawkers and double parked news trucks outside the loft where Heath Ledger had been found dead. In my pocket was a not so cryptic hate letter I had found in a nearby coffee shop earlier that morning, directed at anyone who might be compassionate towards a homeless person outside the window.
While the crowds and the note may have seemed much smaller to me any other day, they happened to occur at a very low point in my life, and made me question why I bothered to keep going in the face of such blatant unkindness. I was still carrying the heavy weight of irreversible decisions I'd made in my life, and was faced with new ones that I didn't yet have answers for. For months prior to this day, I was plagued by insomnia and finding it hard to just get up in the morning, let alone deal with a world so... unwelcoming. I felt like hope was slipping through my fingertips, and that distinct moment I decided to do something about it.
I called my friend Jen, who always manages to know just the right words I need to hear. But this time, I found myself saying just the right words.
"I’m going to write some little love letters to put around the city tomorrow,” I said. 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 continue the hope revolution.
I hope you'll be part of it, too.
Who made this
My name is Krystyn, and I'm a designer and developer who’s been creating content for the web since 2001. I’ve created work for new media companies, big brands, and Internet celebs like Alex Albrecht, Kevin Pereira, Marc Ecko and Bre Pettis. Sometimes I speak at industry conventions about things like CSS, content management systems & positive blogging.
You can learn more about me and what I'm up to on my blog at Squaregirl.com