Kindness Rocks

In January, when Owen and I were on a walk at Penn State Abington, Owen found a painted rock with a quotation on it and #kindnessrocks.  We looked it up when we got home, and read about how it was started a couple of years ago to spread a bit of joy.  People paint the rocks and then leave them all over the place to uplift and inspire.

We thought it would be a good January project and went on our own rock hunting expedition, found a few suitable specimens, got some paint at our local Michael's and set to work.  Owen did the painting, and then once they had dried, I added a few quotations with a sharpie.

Here is a picture of our handiwork before distribution:

We then walked back to campus and found good places for our own kindness rocks.  It's been a few months now and we still see a few where we put them, whereas others have made their way elsewhere.

At one point Owen was going to put one under a pricker bush, and I warned him off saying that it wouldn't be good if someone got pricked while picking up what was meant to be a bit of good fortune.  Which got us to thinking about how it would be funny if we made some #meannessrocks and put suitable quotations on them.  Owen at this point was having fits of giggles and came up with all sorts of meanness rock quotes in the fart genre, whereas I kept smirking at the notion of printing on a rock:  Die a spinster.

Reader, we did not do it.  So if you find a meanness rock you cannot blame us for it.  We went high and spread good cheer.