Project # 1: THE 24 HOUR CIGARETTE RACE

The Cigarette Race

That is me, Hannah, Smoking a cigarette in Nadine Crisp's Station Wagon in Sheboygan, WI in May 2011

Sharing a cigarette at the MSP International Airport in Bloomington, MN in Spring 2011

THI RACE IS FOR ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF 18 THAT LIVES (or is in) IN MINNEAPOLIS (during the race)

Aka not chain smoking hipsters in NYC. This is about meeting people from your community and learning about the people around you, the city you live in and doing something that is not the same-o same-o.

Keeping it LOCAL. To all blog readers not in Minneapolis - have fun reading about or race on this blog when it is all over.

The Cigarette Race is voluntary (and free $0.00) 24 hour race TO BUM AS MANY CIGARETTES AS POSIBLE. Now it is not as easy as it sounds. There are rules. We do not want someone going to a gas station and buying a million cigarettes to cheat and win. Because as we all know, cheaters usually win, but NEVER prosper. Most of my blog followers are creative souls and I bet over 50% of them are cigarette smokers, so they have no need to lie, because this and all my missions I send people on are all about meeting strangers, not having all the glory.

I will try to explain this so everyone will be able to understand.

We will meet at a café ( have not planned everything yet) at 9pm on a Friday night (in the far future, I want everyone to know about this so it will be in a few months). Everyone will come to the café ONE TIME, this is a race, we have no time for B.S!!! At the café I will pass out brown paper grocery bags, a list of rules and wish you good luck. Everyone will need to bring a notebook, a writing utensil, a lighter, appropriate clothing and gear for the weather, maybe a water bottle, a watch, and A CAMERA (preferably digital). If you do not have a camera, borrow one, if no of your friends/family/co-workers have one, rent one from some sort of library, if you can’t rent one have a rich person buy one from Best Buy (or other store) and return it the next day to give rich person their money back. And for the love of God, please, do NOT steal a camera in the name of my blog. I do NOT want a lawsuit here! After explaining the rules in details and making sure everyone has their bumming gear I will send you on your way. I will have a stop watch and start it the minute you all bust open that café door to begin your race.

The point of this race is to a) talk to strangers, b) bum a heck of a lot cigarettes, c) go on an adventure to new places, d) learn something new about your self, other and the city you call home, e) be apart of the first ever Project Get Er Done Official mission and f) Tell people about my blog so they can participate in the next mission.

I want to make it very clear that my project/mission is not to promote smoking. The FIRST mission is a race for cigarettes, yes. But you do not even need to be a smoker to participate. You can bum them and then give them to a friend, throw them away (sad), or scatter them on the street, I don’t fuc*ing care. Point is you do not have to be a smoker to participate, but if you are you will race harder so you can get a bunch of free cigarettes. Another important point, we are going to TALK to strangers, we are not going to TALK SHIT, to strangers. I do not want the cops called because… “Oh it is a project about strangers…” NO! Everyone needs to be polite and respectful. If you ask for a cigarette from some one and they don’t want to give you one, say “thanks anyway, I hope you have a lovely day/night.”

Here are some polite ways to ask a stranger for a cigarette incase you don’t know. And of course thank them if they give you one. If someone is smoking a cigarette you obviously don’t need to ask if they smoke. But if they are not smoking go ahead and ask.


Good day miss/sir/buddy/persons name I was wondering if you smoke and if you do, if you could possibly spare a cigarette for me.
Hi, my name is _____. How are you doing today. Could I please bum a cigarette from you.
Excuse me ______, is there any possible way I could bum a cigarette from you. I don’t have any today because of ________ (some excuse).
Hey _____ that is the same brand of cigarette I smoke. I just ran out. Do you think you would be able to please bum me one.
Hi ______ my name is _______ and I don’t actually smoke myself but I am participating in a massive contemporary art project created by Hannah Chang Schroeder and I am on a 24 hour race to bum cigarettes and meet/talk to strangers so maybe I can stop judging people that do smoke and learn something about their lives. Hannah is so nice and creative, you should check out her blog…grab a pen…here is the URL!

There are MANY ways to ask for a cigarette and make yourself sound respectful.

Here is a list of things you cannot say;

Hey bo, how bout; that cig
Hey you give me one of your cigs
Yo bitch can I bum a square
Got an extra heater
I will give you $5 for the whole pack
Give me a cig or I will beat that ass

Get the picture. The only word you can use is “CIGARETTE.” I do not want to send out a bunch of people bumming cigarettes and sounding like hoodlums. This is a contemporary art project, not the ally behind the bar. But please, do go to that ally and ask for a CIGARETTE nicely! We do not want to sound like a bunch of 16 years olds bumming cigarettes because we legally cannot buy them ourselves. Everyone participating in this project will need to show me an I.d of some sort. I will not have any minors getting arrested to participate in this project. So all you 17 year old artist/chain smoker…I am sorry, this is not for you.

Here are the M.F Rules smokers and creative souls that don’t smoke aka ALL PARTICIPAENTS:

HANNAH CHANG’S TOP TEN

You must be 18 years old (no 17 year olds that look like their older sister)
You must be in Minneapolis for the race
You must bring all of the supplies I mentioned above (camera, pen, paper…ect)
You may only ask a person for a cigarette once, no following smokers around and harassing them
You may only bum (receive) one cigarette from each person you talk to.
You must verbally ask for it, if you are deaf or mute you are allowed to write a note/text to ask for cigarettes. But if you have the ability to speak, you need to open your mouth and ask. This project is about talking to strangers, but if you cannot speak you may by all means participate. We all know how to read and write to.
You are not allowed to smoke any of the cigarettes you bum in that 24 hours. If you bring your own pack you can smoke YOUR cigarettes all day, but not the ones you are bumming.
Keep note of how many cigarettes are in your bag. Tally them. So when you get back you do not need to count them. BE HONEST. I do not have the time to count or re-count every ones cigarettes.
BE POLITE. I already said - this is about talking to people, not talking shit to people. BE NICE. It is easy.
Follow all the rules. This is not “Fight Club” this is a voluntary art project about meeting interesting strangers via bumming cigarettes. So if you know you are not capable of following these rules, please, do not show up at that café to start this race. I am not paying you, you will not get a job recommendation, this is all in the name of art and free entertainment. So all of you people who do not know how to follow rules, go away and give some cigarettes to the people who know how to follow rules.

Now 24 hours after the race starts we will all meet at the same café. We will bring our bags filled with a diverse cluster of bummed cigarettes, our cameras, notebooks, and a brain full of interesting stories about strangers we have met/places we went/trials we encountered…ect. I will then as everyone to tally up their cigarettes and count them if they have not counted them. I will have everyone write down their name and how many cigarettes they bummed. The person that bummed the most wins. But first I will personally count the cigarettes in this “winners” bag to make sure they are not a “cheater.” So here is a list of things the winner will receive

Praise and glory from me for working their ass of to bum cigarettes when I am not paying them money.
A t-shirt that says “I am a good bum”
A certificate of cigarette bummadge (B/W office paper duh, I am not rich)
They get to keep ALL the cigarettes hey bummed
They get to brag
They will not have to buy cigarettes for a long time (if they smoke)
If you don’t smoke and you win, you will now have every chain smoke in MN contacting you for that bag of free cigarettes….aka more “friends”
Not only do you get to keep YOUR bag of cigarettes….their will be a box, a HUGE BOX…and everyone that lost to you will need to DUMP their entire bag of cigarettes into YOUR HUGE BOX. BOOOOOMMMMM WOAH NELLY RIGHT? Now you not only have a huge bag of mother fuc*ing cigarettes…NOW YOU HAVE A HUGE MOTHER FUC*KING BOX OF POSSIBLY THOUSANDS OF CIGARETTES!
This is NOT a box of all Marb Reds… It has every kind of cigarette chain smokers all over Minneapolis have to offer aka: American Spirits, Marbs, Camels, Paul Maul, Newport, Parl, Crush, Top, Danish Shag, ….the list is endless. Maybe even some hand rolled ones…(splif?)
Now when you are sitting on the bus with this HUGE BOX OF FREE CIGARETTES and they guy/girl asks you “how are you?” you have something interesting to say. Usually if you are MN nice you would respond, “good and you?” Now you can say, “I AM REALLY FUC*KING SUPER GOOD, I AM AMAZING, I AM ESTATIC, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT IS IN THIS BOX…HOW ARE YOU?” And BOOM a VERY INTERSTING conversation is now being sparked with a STRANGER. That is the whole purpose of this project. Yeah you have cigarettes which is AWESOME, but now you have something interesting to talk about because you stepped outside of the box and took and risk. CONGRATS future winner, you rock. Whoever wins is going to win my love (if they are actually a good person).

SOME IMPORTANT INFO:

I have not set a date/remember the name of this café. It is a Samali restaurant on the West Bank. I want this race to happen in a few months so word can get out and there will be a buzz around Minneapolis about it before it starts. I want A LOT of people to participate, like hundreds, not like 25 people. Like 525 people. Obviously we wont be able to fit in the café if that many people show up… SO PAY ATTENTIPON NOW.

IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE EMAIL ME NOW hannahchangschroeder@gmail.com

I will put your name on the participant list - that way if a lot of people sign up I can move the meeting location to a larger indoor space, an if it is really huge we can meet in a park or something. But I do not want to shoot for the moon and miss. So I will plan on meeting at the café, and then if this shit explodes we can change plans then. SO EMAIL ME if you are over 18, polite and want to have a lot of fun participating in a huge collaborative contemporary art project and meet a lot of interesting people on the way. NO CALLS. I don’t even have a phone. I have a voicemail thingy. SO EMAIL ME. NO SPAM and please don’t harass me. If you are a relative of someone that died from lung cancer hear me out: I am not making these people smoke these cigarettes, I am just asking them to bum them an spark a conversation. No the mail for Hannah please. We all have a bad habit that is bad for our health. This is mine. But I do not eat meat, or candy, or drink pop, or drink alcohol, or eat non-organic food when at all possible, or drive a car…or….ect. So hey no one has to be mean to smokers. I love smoking and I know it kills me. All smokers that went to public school and took a health class know that smoking is bad for your health, but hey, we still smoke. I dedicate this project to all chain smokers all over the world. This is OUR VISE, so sue us! Everyone has a vise, so I hope people can look in the mirror and try to figure out what their vise is. Smokers, I love you. Quit- if you want to be healthy, or don’t that is your personal decision. I am not quitting anytime soon and that is my choice. Light me up!

Here is how a cigarette can save someone’s life. A group of strangers saved my life one day simply by sparking a conversation with me after I played a song from the when I was out busking (playing music on the street for money). Although they do not smoke, they still SPARKED a conversation with me and opened their mouths, ears, minds, hearts and the door to their house the first night I met them. I was homeless at the time.

So if you enjoyed English class I high school, you may enjoy this analogy. If you don’t know what the word analogy is, Google or dictionary it. It is an easy word to grasp.

This is a quote I wrote about shattering things like: hate, judgment, stereotypes, racism, sexism, ignorance, by simply SPARKING A CONVERSATION WITH A STRANGER.

Here it is:

　

SPARK A CONVERSATION WITH A STRANGER

LIGHT A WILD FIRE IN THEIR HEART

AND TOGETHER BURN DOWN THAT FOREST OF HATETRED DOWN

Because burning that forest of hate down together is lot faster than trying to cut it down all by yourself with an ax.

Because everyone makes mistakes and from mistakes we learn lessons. Everyone makes different mistakes aka we all have learned different lessons.

If we talk to a stranger and LISTEN we can learn a PRICELESS lesson from a mistake we never had to learn the hard way, we can just talk to them and learn from listening.

- Therefore -

lessons learned from strangers are priceless aka..

LESSONS ARE PRICELESS

MONEY IS WORTHLESS

AND CONVERSATIONS WITH STRANGERS ARE FREE

(Conversations with talk therapists are $60+ an hour)


That conversation Megan, Lindsay and Tiffany sparked with me when I was homeless was PRICELESS. They took me in and saved my life. That conversation was priced at $0.00 per hour.

But it was worth more than million dollars.


but it is worth $0.00 when the person you are trying to talk to doesn’t listen to you or walks away or avoids you on the bus, or is too busy. if you want to be the good person you think you are/strive to be…open your mouth, open your ears, open your heart....to a STRANGER. Listen to them. Learn a lesson. or maybe spark a conversation with an old friend you lost contact with. All broken friendships can heal, f you take the time to listen and understand.

SPARK AWAY MY STRANGERS! I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY DAYS!

Show some love for a stranger, you could save a life

PROJECT GET ER DONE went live on the net not even 48 hours ago and has 123 hits. that is 123 people that will spark conversations with strangers. this is awesome. and i havent even submitted it to vita.mn or cities pages or put up posters in all my favorite local businesses, i can't wait for this thing to expode all over minneapolis so when a stranger bums a cigg to a person on christmas day they can spark a conversation with a stranger who is a chain smoker and can't afford a cigg and all this person wants for christams is one cigg and someone to talk to becasue they are having a bad day. this chain smoker is having a bad day. and if stranger person never would have bumed ou tthis cigg to cain smoker and sparked a conversation and listened to why chain smoker was having such a bad day, if they never met, chain smoker was going to go home and drink booze, by himself on christams day because his mom just died, his wife left him last week and his only child is i nthe peace corps in africa...aka drinking alone on christmas...aka that is why god sent stranger to talk to chain smoker to make his small wish/pray for getting a cigg (sparking conversation) come true.  becasue if stranger never talked to chain smoker...when he drowned his sorrows with booze maybe he got drunk and he need to DRIVE to a gastion drunk and on his way to a gas station he hit a family of people driving home from grandmas house BECAUSE IT IS CHRISTMAS AND THEY ARE CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAY OF CHRIST OUR SAVIOR.  BUT god knew that he could save a minivan full of sisters and brother of christ, on christmas, if he just led stranger to chain smoker, they sparked a conversation. becasue of this connversation chain smoker not only has a cigg to smoke and a new friend from a conversation, but becasue of gods mighty love that brought them together on the 2011 birthday of christ, now chain smoker will never get drunk becasue he is now on his way to an A.A in the basement of grace church becasue stranger doesnt drink, but he smokes ciggs like me, and god saved chain smokers life, and a mini van full of people, all threw helping stranger spark a conversation on a bus. Now instead of that bad situation happening, he is now in the basemnt of a church hanging out with a bunch of sober christians (or soon to be christians) on christmas. He is not alone. Now he has a bunch of sober friends that are heling him, with the help of god, to stay sober and live a healthier life, a life free of drunk driving and drunk accidents that could kill people.  And not only are encurigin him to stay sober, but now he has a place to go every wed night at 7:30pm at grace church (hennipen and 28th, minneapolis mn, this is the A.A meeting I go to and these people keep me sober and we chat about god), he also is now going to church with them on sunday and on friday nights he is supporting my favorite cafe by buying coffee (not booze), the nicolette (also a real place on nicolette and franklin) and now he has a sober place to here live music for free while drinking cheap tasty coffee and meeting more fun and interesting people while supporting local business. Now he is supporting local business too. We need to support local businesses/esbalishments/churchs becasue if we didnt we didnt local business would fail and close.  If this happened we would all be forced to (this is taking it to the extreme) drink star buck coffee, buy clothes from walmart (dont get me started on walmart), see U2 concerts at the Target center and go to mega churches in blaine (wasting gas to drive there and polluting our earth).  So thanks to god and a little conversations chain smoker is now: sober, happy, drinking coffee from the nicoltte cafe (or corner coffee or any other locally owned cafe), buying vintage second hand clothes from Black List Vintage (1st ave and 26th), seeing my band play for free at the Blue Nile (Franklina 20th), and going to A.A meetings in the basement of a local church 2 block from his apartment so he doesnt have to waste money on gas driving to a non local mega church far away in a burb. YAY GOD, YAY STRANGER, YAY CHAIN SMOKER, YAY PUBLIC TRANSPORTION, YAY LOCAL BUSSINESS, YAY NETWORKING AT CAFES, YAY A.A MEETINGS, YAY SPARKING CONVERSATIONS WITH STRANGERS.  Sparking a conversation can change someones life or safe someones life, or save them from themselves. But if you never ask that one guy on the bus how he is doing, you would never get the chance to hear what he had to say on a cold Christmas night when he thought he was all alone.  No becasue God sent them to one another chain smoker now knows that he will never be alone. Even when he is walking on the street he knows that God is with him holding his hand for the rest of his life - day or night - warm or cold - walking solo or with friends...friends that he now has had for 5 years and he is surrounded by all of them at a Christmas dinner at a homless shelter. He is not homeless though. Instead of drinking alone in his apartement, he decided to spent is 5 year anniversary of being sober, also Christmas day, serving food to homless people on Christmas. So that he can tell a lonely homeless alcoholic that he is not alone...because stranger was almost homeless or dead 5 years ago to the day but becasue of a starnger talkinng to him on a bus he is now spendig his Christmas with his son at home eating food and exchanging gifts. He is standing next to his son serving homeless people dinner telling them that they love them and God loves them and the address to Grace church so that they can go to an A.A meeting and not be homeless next Christmas. And stranger and peace corps son did not exchange gifts this year. They spent that gift money writing a check to the peace corps, a homeless shelter and the humaine society, so that they could help other people and creatures of God enjoy their Christmas in a new way becasue they have food on their table and that cat at the humaine society is alive for Chrsitmas thanks to their donation. So after chain smoker, who no longer smokes, and peace corp son are done volunteering at the homeless shelter, they go to a Christmas church service with chain smokers long time friend, neighbor and current employer, starnger from the bus. The three men have a blast praising God and go to bed and pray for every stranger that they met on the street that day, they go to sleep sober, safe, warm and have sweet dreams about their loved ones whom have past away (like chain smokers mom aka peace corps grandma) and tell them in their dream: "I love you grandma, I am so proud of your son, my father, for the ways he is spreading gods love TO STRANGERS, i love my father so much and am so happy to see him so vibraint. Grandma, I love you I miss you and i know I am talking to you in a dream, but I want you to know that I thank God everyday that I had such a cool grandma and I will see you in heaven when God come to bring me home to see you." Now these three men are all sound asleep in there own beds so if anyone of them did die in their sleep their loved ones could have comfort that he is at peace wherever he is now, the better place. Thank you Jesus and thank you strangers for sparking conversation.

Maybe you are not a smoker, a bus rider, a Christian, maybe today is not Christmas...BUT you are all human. Most of us have the capability to talk. All of us see stranger on the street. So next time you see someone that looks like they are having a bad day, simply approch them and spark a conversation. Becasue we live and we learn. We all lead very different lives and we all make mistakes and learn from them. So you sharing your story about a lesson you learned can help a stranger becasue he or she now has learned a priceless lessson by sparking a conversation with you and they never had to go through the hardship of making the mistake that you made. They also taught you a lesson. Lessons are pricessless, conversations are pricessles, having a stranger is price less and MOENY IS WORTHLESS. You are not paying this person on the street to have a conversation with you and the lesson he or she just taught you is priceless becsaue you can't walk into a store and by a lesson sitting on a shelf. You lerned this lesson from a mistake yuo never had to make when you decided to finally talk to that one person you see everyday at the public library. Lesson = priceless...money=worthless...strangers=hidden gem.  I want you to open your hearts minds and souls so that you can see and hear this gem that is sitting next to you at the library. This priceless gem could change your life. Or maybe they are writing an essay and cant talk. Doesn't mean they are not a gem, it just means they are busy. So spark a conversation when you see this same gem at a cafe two days later. Point is you do not have to fall into any certain label or steriotype to spark conversation with strangers. So don't be scared, ask someone how they are, listen, and learn a priceless lesson from a beautiful hidden gem.

Talk, listen, learn, talk to another, listen and not that peron now knows a strangers lesson that you told them. it is a chain rection.

"put out fear and they'll feel fear, it's a chain reaction, put out love and they'll fee love, it's a chain reaction..."

so instead of fearing everone you dont know open your heart and open your mouth, put out that love and let that LOVE spread like a WILD FIRE all becasue you SPARED A CONVERSATION WITH A STRANGER!

Thank you so much for reading this blog. It is free, priceless just like allthe lessons you will learn from people you dont know, but will know if you talk to the.

i love you, god loves you and now go give some love to a stranger.

love always,

hannah
-cloud cult.

Mission Statement

I have created this project to spark interesting conversations.  I find, more often then not, people fall into "comfortable" lifestyles and when they are sitting on a bus and someone asks them "what have you been up to lately?" they answer, "nothing much, and you." Their answer "nothing much and you" could mean a million things in my world. But for a large handful of people it means they go to work everyday, either work hard - or half ass their work, go home,  kiss their spouse, if they don't have a spouse maybe pet their cat, cook dinner, watch some tv or read a book, do a few chores and go to bed.  In the morning they wake up to the load beeping of their alarm clock and do it all over again. That is when asked, "what have you been up to lately," they respond "nothing much and you." They are saying this because they live a "comfortable" life. Aka mundane, safe, normal, maybe boring, and somewhat uneventful. Now, I find nothing wrong with this.  These are hard working, tax paying humble people - They just do not have very many interesting or new things to converse about to their buddy at the bar, or a lady at church, or a stranger in a hotel lobby.

When people take risks, try new things, go to unknown places, talk to strangers or tackle a new task they have something at least somewhat interesting to talk about. I want to provide an opportunity for people to tackle new tasks, learn something new so they can feel like they got something done - aka - achievement, aka GET ER DONE!

I have created a series of missions (tasks) for people to tackle. I heard of people doing/starting projects similar to this in the past (like Miranda July) but this is very different from those projects. Their projects sent people on missions and then they had their "missionaries" email them about it blah blah copy paste it. But those projects were on the world wide web (like mine) but it was not bring people together physically face to face in the community they live and wrok in. Most people participatin in projects like Miranda July never met one another, they knew eachother via internet only.  These fans of the project most likely were not interacting IN PERSON. My projects are to be tackled by the fine citizens of MINNEAPOLIS (and metro area).  All the missions will bring people together and create conversations FACE TO FACE...in MINNEAPOLIS, THE BEST CITY IN THE WOLRD. (I am starting a new blog just dedicated to way I love Minneapolis soooo much...that is for another day though)

Some missions will be easy, some hard, some complex, some not, some controversial, some silly, some short, some long, some environmental, but above all they will all be ORIGINAL and hopefully a mission that no one else have ever created ever. No one is required to do a mission, hell, no one is even required to read this blog... but if you decide to read this blog and a mission sparks your interest, try it!  If you try it and don't like it, stop. No one is required to finish a mission. But, if you finish the mission and have a little spare time, I invite you to come meet with other participants and share your experience with us in person. Or share your experience with anyone IN PERSON. If you have a lot of extra spare time...write about your experience and I will post it on this blog under the "stories" tab. Feel free to take photos on your mission too, I will post those as well. This way all those NYC artists can read about our cool project and feel jealous that they cannot participat in it, bunless they by a palne ticket to come talk to us face to face, and that would sprak an interesting converstion. Point is - don't feel pressured to do anything.

BE HONEST. If you have time to write be honest. We do not want to sugar coat our stories, because sugar coating is for sissies and I know that no one that is cool enough to read this blog is a sissy. And sugar coating is a) boring, and b) lying. If you encounter trials or problems on a mission write about it. Because that is interesting. If life becomes easy that is when we fall into a mundane boring hole. Climb out of that whole, read this blog, go on a mission and try to stay out of that mundane hole for the rest if your life. And well you are out of that hole breathing fresh air, reach your hand down, talk to a stranger and help pull them out of the hole too.

Remember I am a starving (seriously I am so broke I don't even have a bank account) artist and I am creating this blog for one reason: to spark conversation face to face. I am not doing this for a class in a University, i dropped out years ago. I am not doing this for a job - don't have a "real" one and that is why I am starving and have so much time on my hands to, you know, sit at a coffee shop that has a computer for 5 hours to type up stuff like this. Now I am a freelance artist/musician/agent/writer so I have a little cash for coffee. But I am happy. Blah Blah this is not my life story... so back to the mission.

I will hold meetings once a week at a Samali cafe in West Bank in Minneapolis. The meeting will be an opportunity for participants to converse about the mission they went on - he people they met, the place they went and such. The meetings will take every Friday at the cafe at 9pm. I know people like to go out to bars/venues/restaurant/parties on Friday nights, but this is a place where you can hang out and meet people without paying a cover, without getting drunk and doing things that you may one day regret. Not to mention the food and drinks are tasty and cheap and if you bought food at the restaurant you would be supporting a family owned small local business.  People need to give cafes like this business so that they can stay open. This project is all about meeting new people and having quality conversations aka in Minneapolis aka you might meet someone that will change your life at this cafe or meet someone on one of your little missions.

I hope that you decide to go on a mission and complete it. I hope that you have fun and learn something new about yourself, others, the world around you, and everything/one that surrounds you in your everyday life. These things/place/people/animals/ect ect ect are around us right in front of our face.  We walk by them everyday, but we do not notice them, because we are to busy running to the bus we catch to work to stop and look at the beauty the world holds. I hope that these missions can open your eye, eyes, hearts, souls, arms and mind.

The world holds unlimited possibilites no lets go out and GET ER DONE. And when its done, lets start talking to people - All sorts of people: Strangers, family members, professors, baristas, waitresses, your nanny, roommates, cops, homeless people, bosses, co-workers, anyone and everyone. We all have mouths, we all have ears. Most of us are blessed with the ability to hear and speak, so start talking and begin to listen. If you are deaf, or you need to communicate with a deaf person, text them, write them a note or email. Communication is beautiful and very easy.

Best of luck on your missions. Let the conversations begin.