Things in my life
I still don't have a job that pays, but I'm working on that. I think mostly it's a matter of marketing my customer service prowess better. When I say prowess, I mean out of 2600 employees in the western united states of my last bank job, I was ranked #1 in customer satisfaction. And yet I feel those skills are underpaid, undervalued and in my case undersold. So there we go. I need to be willing and able to accept money for being a highly ethical person, listening reasonably well, and possibly helping others figure out how to do those things. Maybe I'll go into customer service training..... now where to go for teaching that.
I begin my Book Arts internship at Mills starting this weekend.
Saturday night I intend to go out into preferably with others..... I think the Costco Parking lot in the East Bay that my friend Tigris was telling me about would be a good place to explore public art installation making with sidewalk chalk, or flour, love, affection, prayer, joy, silliness and beautification in mind. It's a place that is otherwise deserted, unloved, and abandoned in the middle of the night, like so many other locations in the Bay area. During the day people walk on that bit of concrete covered earth and think nothing of it.
I'd like to start a movement of public art-making and joy bringing, and everyone here and anywhere is invited. If you can read this, consider it your mission to plant flowers in unexpected places, if you actually have spare change feed expired meters before their vehicles get tickets, dance and skip in public spaces, sing beautiful stuff, play music in the park where there is none, beatbox in elevators, wear cheerful bright colored things when it's unexpected, and smile at random strangers for no reason. This is official permission to bring a little bit of light to places that need it out in the world. No vandalism, nothing permanent, just making the world a little more good.
The rest of the world can be so dark so hard, so loveless. You can change that.
I spent a lot of time this last week feeding people and supporting them in healing things, and found that there is a deep need for kindness, and beautification everywhere. I forget that everyone around me in the "real" world is just as sad and lonely and scared as me, and if we each open up just a little bit more yes including you, you can make things better. You can change your world on a bigger scale and in more meaningful ways by just being a more authentic you.
" If you want to sing out sing out.
and if you want to be free be free..."
It's not just a sappy song from the 70s, it's actually true.
Meet me: 10:00 pm at my apartment on 715 Oakland Ave #205 Saturday August 22, 2009 for some guerilla blessing of public space.
I begin my Book Arts internship at Mills starting this weekend.
Saturday night I intend to go out into preferably with others..... I think the Costco Parking lot in the East Bay that my friend Tigris was telling me about would be a good place to explore public art installation making with sidewalk chalk, or flour, love, affection, prayer, joy, silliness and beautification in mind. It's a place that is otherwise deserted, unloved, and abandoned in the middle of the night, like so many other locations in the Bay area. During the day people walk on that bit of concrete covered earth and think nothing of it.
I'd like to start a movement of public art-making and joy bringing, and everyone here and anywhere is invited. If you can read this, consider it your mission to plant flowers in unexpected places, if you actually have spare change feed expired meters before their vehicles get tickets, dance and skip in public spaces, sing beautiful stuff, play music in the park where there is none, beatbox in elevators, wear cheerful bright colored things when it's unexpected, and smile at random strangers for no reason. This is official permission to bring a little bit of light to places that need it out in the world. No vandalism, nothing permanent, just making the world a little more good.
The rest of the world can be so dark so hard, so loveless. You can change that.
I spent a lot of time this last week feeding people and supporting them in healing things, and found that there is a deep need for kindness, and beautification everywhere. I forget that everyone around me in the "real" world is just as sad and lonely and scared as me, and if we each open up just a little bit more yes including you, you can make things better. You can change your world on a bigger scale and in more meaningful ways by just being a more authentic you.
" If you want to sing out sing out.
and if you want to be free be free..."
It's not just a sappy song from the 70s, it's actually true.
Meet me: 10:00 pm at my apartment on 715 Oakland Ave #205 Saturday August 22, 2009 for some guerilla blessing of public space.