Last year around Christmas my husband visited Southeast Asia on business and came back with descriptions of Christmas trees decorated from head to toe with written words on strips of paper.
That got me thinking about a new stealth project, one I hinted at here.
I printed out the quotes below and covered the paper with sticky plastic. I will put one set of quotation strips on our Christmas tree, but the first strips are now posted here and there around town. We’ll see what happens to them.
Feel free to use the lines here for a stealth project of your own, with or without sticky plastic. Or send some other quotes that I can use. If you are really ambitious, you might put strips of poems at the bottom of a poster headed something like “Help Yourself to Poetry” so people will be encouraged to take one.
“The roses had the look of flowers that are looked at.” T.S. Eliot
“The endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.” Louis Kahn
“God inhabits the praise of his people.”
“Flowers have their agendas.” Mark Jarman
“I’d like to have a hand in things, what’s going on behind the screen.” Kate Colby
“I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on the way.” Carl Sandburg
Oh wow, I’m going to look for these! I LOVE this idea, but I won’t tell who the poetry elf is if I come across any in town. Also, I was sent a photo of my son’s Christmas tree in Morocco, made from olive branches, fig leaves and a piece of a palm tree. — more on that in mid-December guest post I’m doing for Second Lives Club [http://secondlivesclub.com/].
Thanks! I will watch for that.
Love this idea! A great addition to your prior stealth projects. (Tofutti campaign included).
Uh-oh! The Tofutti campaign is a deep, dark secret. No one knows about it. (Except everyone that you and John have told.) 🙂