{"id":6221,"date":"2010-08-12T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2011-04-05T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T12:36:51","slug":"insurgency-of-love-weapons-of-mass-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/insurgency-of-love-weapons-of-mass-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurgency of Love & Weapons of Mass Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grace Bombs | Illustration by Jonathan Blundell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Outlaw Preachers (#outlawpreachers<\/a>) have a great practice known simply as Grace Bombs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Essentially, when someone’s hurting, feeling down, needing a hand to hold or a shoulder to cry on, everyone’s invited to record a short video or voice mail and the messages are collected<\/a> and sent directly to that person ASAP.<\/p>\n

Grace Bombs can also take the shape of a Flash Mob of Love<\/strong> via Twitter — with a mass of messages of encouragement directed towards individuals in need.<\/p>\n

Imagine if all the Insurgents of Love<\/a> put our heads together and found ways of putting Grace Bombs into mass production.
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\nImagine a world in which the US Air Force dropped Grace Bombs on people instead of bombs of destruction…<\/p>\n

Weapons of Mass Beauty instead of Weapons of Mass Destruction…<\/p>\n

Imagine weapons literally turned into plow shares… <\/p>\n

Where instead of launching destructive explosives towards our enemies, we launched guerrilla gardening seed bombs<\/a>, filled with roses, dandelions or sustainable crops to nourish the bellies of those in need…<\/p>\n

Imagine a world where instead of destroying homes we dropped Crayola Bombs on villages and cities…<\/p>\n

As Liz Dyer quoted<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air — explode softly — and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either — not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. – Robert Fulghum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or as Potterarchy said on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bringing love to the world, one Robin’s Egg Blue at a time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Beautiful!<\/strong><\/p>\n

What a way to to turn empires upside down!<\/p>\n

If you were put in charge of the military’s new Grace Bomb project, what would you include in the Grace Bombs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What would war look like if it was led by Insurgents of Love?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Outlaw Preachers (#outlawpreachers) have a great practice known simply as Grace Bombs. Essentially, when someone’s hurting, feeling down, needing a hand to hold or a shoulder to cry on, everyone’s invited to record a short video or voice mail and the messages are collected and sent directly to that person ASAP. Grace Bombs can … Continue reading Insurgency of Love & Weapons of Mass Beauty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[3737,3738,2874,3739,2781,498,3736],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-crayolas","tag-crayons","tag-flash-mob","tag-guerilla-gardening","tag-insurgency-of-love","tag-love","tag-weapons-of-mass-beauty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1Cl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}