Article February 8, 1993 Issue

POSITIVE PRESS

Adair Lara

Glamour

From Glamour magazine, December 1991

"'Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty'"

"It's an underground slogan that's spreading across the nation"

"A woman ... drives up to the ... tollbooth. 'I'm paying for myself, and for the six cars behind me,' she says with a smile....

"One after another, the next six drivers arrive at the tollbooth, ... only to be told, 'Some lady ... already paid your fare. Have a nice day.'

"The woman, ... it turned out, had read something on ... a friend's refrigerator: 'Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.' ...

"Says [Anne] Herbert, [who coined the phrase,] 'Kindness can build on itself as much as violence can.'

"Now the phrase is spreading, on bumper stickers, on walls, at the bottom of letters. ... As it spreads, so does a vision of guerrilla goodness....

"Like all revolutions, guerrilla goodness begins slowly, with a single act. Let it be yours."

By Adair Lara, columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle and author of Welcome to Earth, Mom.

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