Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Guerrilla Giving

Give. Be gracious as you were given so much.

I've been asking a few people about creative ways to give cash to strangers. Hiding change in laundromats, coffee shops. Putting coins in coke machines and not buying the coke. Handing dollar bills out on the street. Putting money in balloons and giving them out.

The big kicker is one called "Jubilee", borrowing from the Levitical idea of countrywide debt forgiveness. A group held a celebration on Wall Street one day where they dressed in cognito, and carrying a ton of change, dollars, etc. they chunked in all after a short speech and celebrated in the street with sidewalk chalk and bubbles. People caught on and starting giving to each other in the street. Pretty awesome.

So, think and act in utter generosity.

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