I first “met” Amy Krouse Rosenthal when her 17 Things I Made video – and its follow-up: The Beckoning of Lovely – came out in 2008. These videos were celebrations of creativity, connection, and flying by the seat of your pants (one of amy’s mottos is “figure it out as you go” …). I was a little in crush with this amazing writer, creator, and filmmaker. I’d dip into her work now and then over the years, but it wasn’t until her Modern Love piece in the New York Times – You May Want to Marry My Husband – went viral the first week of March, I learned that she had ovarian cancer, and only a few days left “being a person on this planet.” Almost immediately, my online friend (who i can’t wait to turn into an in-person one) Sherry Richert Belul of Simply Celebrate invited me to a thing she was making in honor of Amy. Based on Amy’s book Plant a Kiss – Sherry asked a bunch of us to commit to offering some gesture of kindness (big or small – it didn’t matter) to the world between March 7 and March 16, and then share the story of that kindness on their blog and/or Facebook in order to spread kindness and […]
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