the master copy of the book is being sent to press tomorrow. once that is received (& carefully reviewed) all of you beautiful people will be given instructions as to where to buy it.
it’s happening.
it’s all really happening.
& you & you & you are the reason why.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
-hermann hesse.
hello birds & bees,
the definition submission will only be open till noon on friday october 30th. if you want to submit but haven’t yet get them in get them in! the book is almost complete!!!
look out for the preorder early next week!
if you would like to be in the book please see below & complete the task! then, email your answer to us the.feel.good.revolt@gmail.com with: your first name, age, city. of course, by emailing us your answer you’re allowing us to print your answer in the book but, you know that!
merriam-webster defines remarkable as:
re·mark·able adj : worthy of being or likely to be noticed especially as being uncommon or extraordinary
synonyms noticeable
your task: your definition of remarkable. please set it up in a dictionary fashion. for the synonyms feel free to write people or things you think are remarkable!)
example: re·mark·able adj : someone who speaks their mind, loves everyone, & works towards being the best person they can be. also: something that gives you that creeping feeling in your chest like you want to smile & cry & laugh all at the same time.
synonyms erin, the woods, baby bunnies.
in this book, his father had written as an inscription & directive, write what you want. every day, or as often as you can, write what you want. that way, whenever you’re confused or rudderless, you can look to this book, & be reminded where you want to go & what you’re looking for…this journal was for positive wants, not negative wants. when you wanted something negative, it didn’t count, he said. a want should be positive, his father had said. a want should improve your life while improving the world, even if just a little bit.
-the wild things dave eggers.
we as people crave community. so why is it that when we’re feeling absolutely lost we regress & separate ourselves from everyone & everything. little ghost that doesn’t work. find your tribe. it may be tough. you may go from person to person to person looking for someone to click with. don’t give up. it will happen & it will feel amazing when you find that person. when you find those two or three people who you can truly count on. call them when you’re feeling low, they will always listen. call them when you have great news, they’ll smile with you. we need to be together, we need to be here for each other. no matter what. rain or shine. we’ll never let you go.
if you’re searching for your tribe we’d be more than happy to join & help. the.feel.good.revolt@gmail.com we’ll listen to your highs your lows & we’ll hold you tight.
if you’re searching for a few good people in a city you think is lost, or a state you think are full of people you’d never want to get to know maybe we can help.
where are you from?
we’d love to get to know you all.
we’d love for you to know each other.
when you put things in perspective everything seem so silly: we’re just fragments of the universe, and yet we can spend our whole lives fretting about stretch marks, big noses, small breasts, chubby fingers. what the hell?
does it really seem worth it? how much of your day do you spend worrying: she’s prettier than me. oh my bum looks so big in these pants. oh she’d never choose me over him. oh that sounded so dumb. oh oh oh oh. think of what you could be DOING with that time? what you could be thinking. BEAUTIFUL POWERFUL THOUGHTS. a new invention, a new story, the solution to a problem. you could be doing so much more. embrace that time. for every silly negative thought think two positive ones. yes, it’s hard. but eventually it won’t be.
we’re just dust in this universe & we’ve been given the opportunity to live a REMARKABLE existence. why waste any time?
let’s promenade down the boulevards with terrific pride & light in our eyes.
-a silver mt. zion
Every day is the best day ever. No second chances and no regrets, now and now and now. Memory is a reminder of… memory is a reminder that things were one way before, but TODAY is the chance to make everything how you want it to you be.
The first step is the first step towards the sun.
Start your day:
Today is going to be the best today that I can live.
Wake up.
Breathe in; the sun warms the air and your lungs smile.
The sunshine in your lungs permeates your blood.
Spreads throughout your entire body.
Energy, energy, energy.
the leaves are changing & so can you. NEW SCHOOL. NEW JOB. NEW LOVE. NEW LIFE. autumn calls for reinvention, a change of scenery. don’t hold back. cut your hair, tell her you love her, tell him you’re leaving, start a band, leave your job, switch your major, do what makes you feel good. the choices you make now will pave the way for the rest of your life. does that always have to be a negative thing? no no no no no no!!! don’t be frightened, things will work out. throw your heart into it & hold your chin up high. we’re going to make a beautiful future. this is the start of something remarkable.
beautiful followers,
we’re still here! we hope you haven’t forgotten us. our posts have been dwindling lately but we come with promises of change. more updates!!! soon soon soon!!! due to faulty computers, summer adventures, & such we have been carried away from the screen but we have returned.
the book!!! is still in the works. news of pre-sale will be availible as soon as it is sent to print! we wish it to be the best book it can be so therefor it is taking a but longer than expected. it will be worth the wait!
the revolution!!! addresses will be sent out soon. the bird in charge of the revolution has managed to break her 3rd computer & has not been able to use one for the time it wil take to sort out all the extraordinary people wishing to spread love. if you wish to send a letter now now now there are many addresses left in the comments which you could choose from!
love.
Please feel free to be a guerrilla lovespreader.
Schools with libraries and public computers make this so easy. One method I prefer as a way to spread a little love and catch people out of their routines is to switch the home page of a browser, like firefox, safari, internet explorer, etc. to Y.A.R.
This can be done by going up to the top menu, where file, edit, etc. live and finding the browser preferences option. On Firefox go up to Tools>Options>Main and there will be a box that has the address of what you’d like to set the homepage to enter youareremarkable.wordpress.com. On other browsers it should be a similar option.
If you prefer to stay unaffiliated, feel free to set the homepage to some other kind of positive image or webpage. Something to catch people off guard, something to break the monotony of checking email, facebook, and melting in front of the screen.
Enjoy every minute of the summer sweat as it rolls down your back in a room full of people you’ve never met or known forever. Enjoy every drop of dew that slowly comes to life as light spreads its fingers across the morning.
The beauty in the tone of cloudless skylight or cloudspiral tessellation, it is there and waiting to be unlocked by your heart and eyes.
look up towards the sky
& watch it shine
& as you watch it,
empty yourself
& let it’s beauty
fill you.
the most important thing you can do is to love your body. every body must love their body. every body is exquisite.
here is one way to grasp how extraordinary your body is: think of your body as a beautiful fruit tree. your finger tips are the beautiful blossoms which produce the fruit which is the love of everyone you touch. your legs, your arms, are the strong strong limbs that outstretch keeping you close to everything. your torso is the trunk, which keeps your body sturdy & gives your body the nutrients.
your tree houses many beautiful creatures: a brain which is where your creativity is (a momma bird & her little babies.) you must build your nest with books & stories & experiences. weave them all together nice & tight & your creativity will be reborn & reborn. then their is your heart which is where your love pump pump pumps out of every second (this heart doesn’t need to be represented as any creature because every tree has a heart! a center.) your tree also houses, most importantly, your soul. (your soul are the ants which live in the tree. they work, invisible to the eye, constantly carrying the weight of things much bigger than themselves.)
your body is beautiful! it has to be. your body is beautiful regardless of what someone might say, or if your reflection does not look like that on a tv screen/magazine. your body is beautiful regardless of what a scale might show or if it is a different shape from those you know. your body is beautiful & strong. your body is yours. own your body, love your body.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
— Roald Dahl, The Twits
Sometimes the best friends we have are the last people we thought would end up in our lives.
I recently got back in touch with a friend from high school, and while we got along well then, and had mutual interests (such as they are when you’re 16), I had some reservations about renewing the friendship. I’d heard through the grapevine about his escapades through the years, and hard drinking, notorious partying, and a penchant for cute young girls made me think he was not really someone with whom I could cultivate a relationship of any sort. After a solid 3 hours on the phone the other night, though, I realized that not only was this person still the friend I’d had 10+ years ago, but that our friendship has the potential now to grow far beyond the boundaries of 3rd period history.
I have to say, that throughout this experience, as well as a few others I’ve had with getting back in touch with old friends (thank you Facebook), I’m pleasantly surprised when I find out that people I used to be friends with have grown into people that I’m still happy to know, and still excited about getting to know further. This particular friend made a comment about thinking I was pretty, and although it’s a very nice compliment to pay someone, the way it spanned the time-space continuum made it that much sweeter. To find out, years later, that I touched someone’s life, even in a small way, is a gift we don’t often get; too frequently, the effects we have on others’ lives are lost to divergent paths – we change schools, grow up, get married, lose touch; and never have the chance to let someone know that our life was a little nicer, a bit more fun, for having them in it.
The dynamics of friendship, of acquaintances, of the people that pass through our lives, have always intrigued me; I’ve had some really close friends, and some of them have drifted so far away; it really kind of sounds like a sappy 70’s love song, but the truth is that there is a pinhole in the fabric of my being for having lost each one of them. I often wonder if the same is true for people who’ve known me – have they missed me? Wondered what I was up to? Had one last thing to say to me? Wanted some kind of closure on a time in their lives that is obviously over, but has some lasting fragments floating around their heart? And how much would it mean to me to hear those words from them? I’m guessing it would be as lovely an experience as it is to be able to do that for another; in my case, to be able to tell my new-old friend that not only am I glad that he reached out to me all these years later, but that I’m excited to get to know him all over again, and that the seeds of a relatively superficial meeting a decade ago appears to have the makings of a lifelong friendship. I can tell him that I’m proud of the way he’s turned out; that I’m pleased to hear of all he’s accomplished, and I can admit to the tiny crush I had on him way back when. I have the opportunity to tell him how my life is better for having him as a part of it, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.
That is what youareremarkable means to me – it gives us the chance to say all the things we are too busy to say, or the things we think are too silly, sappy, or confessional; it lets us brighten people’s lives and in turn, brighten our own. It’s about taking advantage of every moment we’re here to admire the beauty and fragility of life and love, and the glass threads that bind it all together.
-written by siobhan allen
tomorrow is always too late. what is wrong with today? we need to learn to take action & chase feelings the second we feel them. let’s stop putting things off. what is the point? why do we put things off? there is really no reason. what holds us back? is it fear? lack of time? lack of company? what? whatever it is, let’s make time to start putting our thoughts, feelings, desires into action! tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow. LET’S MAKE IT TODAY. today is the day.
celebrate july 8th, 2009
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if you’d like to celebrate, all you need to do is fill your heart with love on july 8th & spread it around. here are just some ideas to how you can do just that:
*wake up with a big smile on your face
*say hi to every stranger you see
*hold doors
*hand out cupcakes, delicious treats, lemonade out on a street corner or in a park.
*hand out notes to strangers with positive messages.
*make signs & hang them up in very visible places around your city.
*cook dinner for a friend.
*tell everyone you love just how extraordinary they are.
