I have a question for YOU!

A challenge from a LoveYou2 scavenger hunt circa 2012.

Almost a decade ago in the early days of LoveYou2 and when my children were younger, I was low key famous amongst my kids’ friends for creating epic scavenger hunts. As part of their birthday parties or for holidays when kids were off school and collective parenting of children needed to happen as we took turns taking off time from work, I created age-appropriate scavenger hunts for the kids to push their limits of freedom and interact with strangers. One of the many gifts of raising children in a city and recognizing the possibilities for them as their small worlds began to expand. 

I left my heart in San Francisco was a favorite scavenger hunt (shared via a Google Doc) for you to adapt and alter to your own neighborhood.) Challenges were never repeated, teams of kids were often tasked with wearing costume items and always charged with staying together. Kids begged for the day a babysitter or “mentor” was not assigned to stay with their team as they went about their scavenger hunts. I love seeing these awesome photos pop up as memories—our Glen Park shop merchants and neighbors participating in the good fun.

Yes, I’m also a bit nostalgic right now. It’s been over a decade of this “get love. give love.” journey that has been hanging love notes in public places without permission, connecting with strangers, and creative explorations of loving outloud with and for my kids. In less than a week, I am dropping my youngest child off to college. To be fair, we got an extra year together thanks to the pandemmy. But, really and truly, do we ever have enough time when something is so good?

I’m exploring what is next: for me, for LoveYou2, for life, for work. It’s all the things. A transcendental transition of epic proportions. This fall, I’ll begin writing a book about the LoveYou2 journey: what it has been to start a public art project on a mission to change the world one love note at a time, reflecting on the hundreds of stories of how love notes have changed people’s lives, and capture the lessons learned from thousands of encounters hanging love notes in public places without permission.

 

Here's my question for YOU:
 

I have a question for YOU. What would you like to see in a book about LoveYou2? What intrigues you? What would want to learn? What would make you want to buy and share a book about this project? Please connect with me and let me know your thoughts. I’d be so grateful. And you never know - you just might end up in the book.

Here’s to both the beginning and the end of journeys. And everything in between.