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New At Karma Kitchen: Weekly Themes!

Posted by Nipun Mehta on Sep 2, 2009

To keep the experience fresh and give us all an opportunity to go a little deeper, Karma Kitchen now has a theme each Sunday! Sample themes: Beginnings, Art & Healing, Joy, Stillness... Each theme is accompanied by a related activity that serve as an invitation to "Step up" the generosity and inspiration in our lives. From self-addressed postcards filled out with intentions for the year, to handmade cards with heartfelt messages written out to families undergoing tough times and collaborative collages like the one attached, each week results in something utterly unique, thought-provoking and delightful!

Two weeks ago, our theme was joy and we asked people to share what makes them smile. And then, Sachi put all of it together on a wonderful larger-than-life collage that looked like this:

Below are some of the responses to "What makes you smile?":

"hot chocolate on blustery day", "when someone asks me, 'what makes you smile?'", "a kiss on the cheek", "kids laughing", "Audrey Hepburn riding a scooter with Gregory Peck", "cool breeze on my face all night long", "tara watching over us in a corner", "scuba diving", "to see others gain confidence in themselves", "being unconventional and hand-gliding", "connection", "a good meal with Idrens", "meeting new people", "when someone gives me a compliment", "praying", "my 20-year-old sons knock-knock jokes", "labs (dog kind)", "unconditional love amongst brederin and sisterin", "good food", "making someone else smile", "look of love and loveliness", "when I see a friend I haven't seen in a long time", "when someone gives me a compliment", "friendship", "random talks with strangers", "a really funny joke", "hummingbirds", "babies laughing", "when someone says of-ten instead of often", "unintrerrupted horizons", "when someone makes me feel special", "sunshine", "happy, free animals", "breaking my expectations", "wow" ... and of course, the infamous: "when people do impressions of other people."

Oh, and here one more: "Joy: my 2-year-old running & jumping into my lap, beaming with joy, saying: 'mama, mama, it's green!' Then he showed me a leaf."

The colorful collage will be anonymously left at the door steps of Smile Card team volunteer who was recently hospitalized.

Karma Kitchen has always been a collective space for people to step into that space of positive intention within themselves ... but it's great to see it manifest as collaborative art too!

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Comments

On Sep 04, harjinder* wrote:*		the idia of smile card is excellent

On Sep 05, Priyanka* wrote:*		A compliment for no particular reason from a complete stranger.

On Sep 06, j wrote:		i loved this.