{"id":2835,"date":"2008-03-20T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/a-silent-revolution\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:06","slug":"a-silent-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/a-silent-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration benevolence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/2346885471\/\" title=\"Spread the love by m-c, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3280\/2346885471_73ee49aa30_o.png\" width=\"460\" alt=\"Spread the love\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a silent revolution going on, a guerilla of creatives, leaving their footprints around. Goodness is spreading, slowly, but surely &#8211; and we each can be a part of it, but only by taking action, even the smallest one. <\/p>\n<p>The picture above is from <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.concrete.org.au\/nat\/archives\/2008\/03\/flower-gifting.php\">Natalija&#8217;s flower gifting<\/a> &#8211; yes, gifting. Walking around and leaving flowers for strangers to discover, on the wiper of their car, at the feet of their door. Botanical benevolence she calls it.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst many other inspiring activities, there is the <em>Hope Revolution<\/em> website which encourages you to create notes with messages of hope and leave them in public places. Visit their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoperevo.com\">website<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/hoperevo\/\">flickr group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/49594819@N00\/2264641967\/in\/pool-hoperevo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2358\/2264641967_dda8e6ce22.jpg\" width=\"460\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <em>oh-so-needed<\/em> inspiration benevolence should be an easy and fun thing to do, and as Christine suggested, you can make the difference in someone&#8217;s day with simple gestures: using <a href=\"http:\/\/sparkletopia.squarespace.com\/sparkletopia\/2008\/3\/18\/creative-project.html\">chalks to write on streets, or add little notes to car wiper<\/a> &#8211; whatever how, make it easy for your message to be shared!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a silent revolution going on, a guerilla of creatives, leaving their footprints around. Goodness is spreading, slowly, but surely &#8211; and we each can be a part of it, but only by taking action, even the smallest one. The picture above is from Natalija&#8217;s flower gifting &#8211; yes, gifting. Walking around and leaving&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/a-silent-revolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inspiration benevolence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}