Commit Random Kindness & Senseless
Acts Beauty
As best I can tell, this is a variation of a quote by a
San Francisco writer named Anne Herbert. Her original quote apparently
was "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of
beauty." I think I like the original quote better, as it has a
certain symmetry that is lacking in the bumper sticker above. But the
shorter version fits better on a bumper sticker and mini sticker.
I really don't know much about Anne Herbert, except that
she used to work at and write for "Co-evolution Quarterly."
This leads me to think she is probably more evolved than some of the
rest of us -- or maybe more co-evolved -- whatever that is.
I found a few things she wrote online. Here are a few
lines that struck a chord with me:
"Life offers many zigs, in each and every day, and
it's really easy to twitch in some way we've been trained to twitch and
think there is only one way to zag in response.
There are 360 degrees in a circle and nobody knows how many degrees
there are in a sphere.
At any moment, there are a lot of ways to zag in response to the zigs
life offers. And when you respond from the place where your tenderness
meets your wild and crazy imagination, Zag the Transformer might be
you."
I like that. But I'd need pretty big bumper sticker for
all that.
Dan R. Frazier