One of our favorite local artists, Kelly Lynn Jones of Little Paper Planes, passed along the details of this special event taking place next Tuesday, November 11. Although folks in San Francisco will be gathering at Dolores Park at 11:11am and 11:11pm that day, this is something that anyone, anywhere, can participate in. So what is it exactly?
The organizers are hoping to observe a full minute of silence, during which everyone makes their own wishes. It is their hope that "the alignment of numbers and synchronicity of people coming together for a common mission can remind us that together we can realize the true affect that positive thinking can have."
What we think is especially cool: The whole thing will be documented through photographs and writing. A list of wishes will be kept at the event, and you can email yours if you can't make it there. According to Kelly, "there will be a site eventually where people can enter their wishes and then they will all be included in a book form and a possible exhibition in the future." In the meantime, if you want more details, send an email to 1111wishlist[at]gmail.com
Image: "Verlin" print by Melissa Moss, available at Little Paper Planes
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Is Kelly Lynn Jones responsible for the painting above the post? It's gorgeous! I'd love to know more about it if you have any info.
Thanks!
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month -- remembrance day for those of us who still remember what veteran's day was once all about. Poppies are so lovely this time of year.
i live at 1111...
eldest of 11 (children)...
11:11 pacific time, GMT, or your local time?
veteran's day, yes, i remember...
Hi Griffin - The print is by artist Melissa Moss. You can purchase it in Kelly's shop:
http://www.littlepaperplanes.com/product/1386-verlin-print
Sorry,. I'll be too busy remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that others are able to live in a free and democratic society and partake is such frivoulous activities.
There are 525,599 other minutes each year that people can make wishes. personally I make mine when I blow out my birthday candles.
In Canada it's Remembrance Day, as first declared King George V, on 7 November 1919. In downtown Toronto, most people wear red poppies on their coats for the week or so before. There is a formal ceremony in Ottawa that includes the reading of "In Flanders Fields."
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Lest we forget.
Thank you, Anh-Minh. And thanks, Platypus, for posting that poem. It's been way too long since I read it and it brought tears to my eyes as it always has. Thanks again.
My wish will be that the District of Columbia War Memorial will be restored.
worth a visit...i walked through this cemetery in Normandy with a WWII veteran in 1965, and visited again as an adult, just after 9/11.
http://fleursdelamemoire.free.fr/static.php?op=entowers.txt&npds=1
i will never forget that there are broken hearts and sons and fathers and brothers and uncles and best friends...all buried beneath identical crosses and stars...many with no heirs, a truly silent generation.
Um that time is reserved for something else... (see comments above) -- pick another one folks.
11/11 on 11th hour... tis Remembrance Day.
Wear your poppies over your heart. Lest we forget.
bclynn, I haven't seen poppies distributed since I was a child.
I don't think people would even know what they were for anymore. :-[
Jean --
Pity. I reside in Canada and everyone wears the poppy, beginning at least two weeks before Nov. 11 - Remembrance Day (or Veterans Day for US).
The poppy is symbolic of a very important time of year... see platypus comment above.
We shall remember...
My boss and I walked over to the memorial I mentioned above. It's in worse shape than when we went in the summer. She found a poppy in the bushes, so I'll be ready next year.