Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good

The third guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Jen Louden.

 Jen Louden is a best-selling author, retreat creator, and Comfort Queen turned activity catalyst. She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world. Join her at www.jenniferlouden.com and on Twitter at @jenlouden.

Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good

 

After reading my friend Keri Smith's book The Guerilla Art Kit, my 16-year-old daughter Lillian decided it would be delish to write little-bitty love notes and plaster them all over our tiny town. So out came the colored Post-it notes and markers, and we  wrote hundreds of notes saying things like "Do you know how beautiful you are right now?" and "Yes, it will be a better day today" and "You smell good." 

Then we snuck downtown about 9:30 pm (our town goes to bed at 8) and plastered them everywhere - from the side of the bank to the backdoor of the bakery to neighbor's windshields... it was so delightful to wonder what people's reaction would be the next morning.  We heard gossip later about how pleased and mystified people were!

We've done this numerous times and it's taken different forms. This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. We wrote a sweetness in front of an office for a friend grieving the death of his child, in front of our doc's office saying thanks for being such a great healer, and loud praise for the librarians at the library. What was truly cool was how long some of the messages lasted - in some cases, weeks!

Since finding cool things to do with your teens can be a challenge (at least for me), consider guerilla art love as your next Savor and Serve project!

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