Spreading Kindness, Rock by Rock
"Mom! I found one! I found a rock!"
I 1 those words again and again last summer as I sat on the porch of my home, which faces a park in the small town where I live.
The Kindness Rocks Project, which was started a few years ago by a mom in Massachusetts, has 2 around the world. 3, families, and adults of all ages are taking part-painting rocks, hiding rocks, and finding painted rocks all over the place. Some 4 photos of the rocks on social media, and others simply move the rocks for someone else to find. Some take the rocks home and then 5 them with new ones that they create and hide.
Nine-year-old twins Harry and Hannah DeVrieze have 6 hundreds of rocks with their parents. Most evenings, the family and their small dog walk around with a wagon full of 7 that they hide as they walk.
"It's a fun 8 activity," Hannah says.
"We will do it in the winter too," Harry 9. Ben Burinsky, aged nine, and his brother, Luke, aged seven, were visiting relatives when they 10 their first painted rock in a park. They were so 11 that they went home and painted their own rocks, then 12 them for others to find.
"My boys loved finding the rock in the park, 13 since it was a superhero," their mother, Judy Burinsky, says. "I love how something so small can bring a smile to my children's faces. 14 , they learn the 15 of giving back to others."
