Please Play!

Well, Happy Weekend! It feels like we all really need this one, right? Walking along and thinking about what I'm going to get into this weekend, I took a turn down Marco Place and saw a whole bunch of little chalk messages left over from Easter, and a hopscotch type game going all the way down the sidewalk. The very first one said, "Please Play!" next to a heart with "Love" inside of it. I'm going to take these sweet little kids' advice and play and love for sure this weekend.

As you go along, you can see that the kids were trying to write a nice message to everyone along the way. One house got the "You have a cute dog" message ...

Another lucky house got told that they were liked and nice ...

It's kind of hard to make out what several of them said, but the effort remains adorable and who doesn't like a kind compliment every now and again?

These kids know. They can think of something nice to say about everyone. We would all do well to emulate the good observations and the positive attitudes of these Venice kids that clearly spent their day making the day of others. And having fun doing it.

Yes ... Please play!!

The Street Feather Project - Each Message Is A Seed Planted

With all the action always going on along Windward Avenue at the beach, I almost walked right past this great little sign and message one day ...

I got home and looked up "Street Feather Project" and discovered that it's an organization that puts positive, artful messages up all over the world, planting seeds of love and goodness along the way. Their credo is "Because we still believe we can change the world with our creativity. Art for all."
I get it, because you can't stop and read these wonderful messages and not feel better about things in the world, knowing that there's people out there doing nice stuff like this. Making the world a little better with every message. I love it.

What a great Valentine's weekend message ... "So much love to give. Give much love to live." Because that's what it's all about. LOVE.

Love you.