Review - "Piercing the Darkness: Leave a Note"

WORLDWIDE EVENT: It's happening wherever YOU ARE AT!! January's event is super easy: Leave a Note. On January 17th, take 30 seconds to write an encouraging note on a piece of paper. Leave it anonymously somewhere that someone who needs it can find it - and let destinydo the rest!

On top of a stack of cans in the grocery store? Post-it note on the bathroom mirror at work? Written on the back of your bill at a restaurant? Scribbled on a napkin and left on a bench? Scrawled on a piece of notebook paper and slipped into the locker of someone you don't know? Yes, yes, yes! All of these are perfect. The idea is to make someone smile, give them hope, encouragement...and pierce the darkness that has overcome our world.

The purpose of Piercing the Darkness is to help be a source of light in the world in these times of darkness. We do easy, simple things that help others feel a little better, and in turn, we feel a little better, too. It's a baby step towards bringing light back into this perpetually darkening world.

Each month, we have a small, simple event. Something super easy that anyone can do, anywhere in the world, to make the world a lighter, brighter place. Please join us as we spread joy, hope and love - and invite your friends and family, too! And to be invited to future events, please "Like" our page, and join our Group!


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I participated in this project on Tuesday 17th January and I've got to say, it was a heck of a lot of fun :)

The night before the project, I wrote out my cards and thought about where I would put them on my lunch break from work...

To my great delight, on my lunch break it was crisp and freezing cold, but there was glorious sunshine and a bright blue sky :)

I set about a random walk around the town centre and picked the spots I wanted to leave my notes. 

I ended up choosing a parking meter (because who likes paying for parking? We need to make paying to park your car better with notes!), a public toilet (I brightened up grey tiles with a sunshiney greeting card!), a table outside a cafe, and I posted one through the door of a (closed on Tuesdays) cheese shop, hehe!

 I stuck the one about growing old/up onto the carton of milk in the fridge at work (because my colleagues are legends and they deserve a smile on a Tuesday morning!)

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Here's some of my favourites from others that posted their photos of notes:

^ by @rachelpatti on Twitter

^ These three are by Emily from the Events page on Facebook

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This event took place on 17th January but there's no reason you shouldn't carry on Piercing the Darkness any day of the year - add a little light into someone's life by posting a note of your own (and then uploading a picture of it to the Facebook page!)

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Please consider "liking" the Piercing the Darkness page on Facebook - they do one event like this per month

#100happy today: People Should Smile More

#100happy is everywhere.

100 Happy is one thing per day that makes you smile. Feel-good ammunition for when things get tough and the promotion of day-to-day mental wellbeing. 


After reading this Opendiary entry trying to spread smiles throughout the world, I felt like trying it myself.


Tomorrow I will post some of these:

in random places in my world and record any reactions they get :)


Stay tuned...

#100happy - Lonyo - Summer of Love (Comme ci Comme ca)

#100happy today - Thursday 29th September 2011


*The coffee machine at the training centre
*Finding out it was a half day course and spending the rest of the day wandering around the city
*Sunshine and hot temperatures!! It was 28 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Madness.
*Iced peppermint latte
*A violinist and cellist in the city centre playing Pachelbel
*Browsing around Topshop and Accessorize and Monsoon*Trying on my "The One" wedding dress and it being a perfect fit
*Giving myself a payday treat of a "grown up" handbag that's big enough to put all my work stuff in
*Sunshine! (So good I typed it twice)
*Getting checked out even though everyone else was wearing hotpants and I was sweating my jubblies off in my uniform complete with obligatory tights and wool blend pencil skirt
*A helpful dude in the post office
*Crumpets and pate and cheese and grapes and pineapple juice

#100happy - Beautiful South - Song for Whoever

100 Happy is one thing per day that makes you smile. Feel-good ammunition for when things get tough.  For more on #100happy, see undane.co.uk or search #100happy on Twitter.



#100happy for 15th and 16th October:

• Waking up to sunshine streaming through the gaps in the curtains
  
• Bagels, sausage, scrambled egg and tea
  
• A trip to B&Q with The Boy
  
• Having two dear friends (and their spaniel, who is named after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer) visit our new house
  
• Chatting about life, love and Manchester United in a country pub
  
• Lamb and redcurrant pie with chips, cabbage and gravy
  
• Real ale
  
• Singing along to some inspired choices from the jukebox in the local and staying til the early hours of the morning
  
• Getting a lift home from the landlord in his Jag(!)
  
• Waking early and watching the rugby
  
• Returning to bed for a cheeky nap
  
• Sunshine
  
• A mug of hot Vimto
  
• Fluffy socks
  
• Having no housework to do because we already did it during the week
  
• Tea and ginger biscuits
  
• Red berry scented candles
  
• Cuddles

The Nature Anthem

I wanna swim in the river and lie in the sun
I wanna try & be nice to everyone
Grandaddy Nature Anthem

If you can't stifle a laugh at this video, you're probably dead inside.

Jump Around.

View JUMP AROUND, a set on Flickr.

It’s possible to forget how alive we really are. We can become dry and tired, just existing, instead of really living. We need to remind ourselves of the juice of life, and make that a habit. Find those places inside that jump for joy, and do things. ~ Anonymous


IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO JUMP ABOUT LIKE A LUNATIC WITHOUT COMING OVER ALL ECSTATICALLY HAPPY. And Iris Macro is going to prove it.

Quote of the Day - Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."