All You Meep is Love

When I made the first "meep," way before they even had a name, it was just a gesture to say to someone "I see you struggling and I want you to know I am here and I care." I never expected it to be much of anything. I honestly envisioned that it would probably live in a sock drawer for some time before being forgotten and later discarded. I did not have a vision for a meep army, to be making thousands of them and sending them across the country. There had been so many times in my life I had big ideas to do things, but this was not one of those times. I never saw this coming.
Still, I couldn't help but notice the original recipient liked it. It wasn't living in a sock drawer at all. It was always in his pocket, if not in his hands. That surprised me.

So I thought, maybe I could make a few more. I knew some people dealing with life-y things, and I knew I had some healing to do myself. So I started to make yellow orbs and called them "sunshine" because I needed to bring the sun back into my life. I made two yellow sunshines: one for a friend in need of some in her life and one for a student who despite her life being really life-y, she always felt like sunshine to me. And from there, I started to make more, now in any color yarn I had. I gave them to students, to co-workers, to friends. I posted about them, mostly as a way to proclaim to the world that I was looking in the face of pain and choosing to heal myself through caring about others. I was embracing the storms I survived by choosing to get through them with love and kindness.