100 Squares for Christmas
My original post about this project is posted here.
Welcome to my 100 Squares for Christmas wall. Each square here represents one thing I want to do for you this Christmas. Here’s how I’d like it to work:
- Tell me in the comments, by email (ryan@oktober5.com), or via Twitter that you want a square. First come first served until we reach 100.
- Tell me what you want for Christmas! It could be something specific or nothing at all. I can write, take pictures, edit pictures, and maky simple title graphics. If none of that strikes your fancy, let me know what I can do for you, and I’ll do my best to make it happen.
- My helper elves and I will make up your present tout de suite (or at least before Christmas).
- In your square on my 100 Squares for Christmas wall I’ll put your avatar or some other image of your choosing, linking back to your site or wherever you want.
- We’ll all be happy.
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Chuck wrote @
I would like an article written for your site praising my friend Hannah’s goodness. She doesn’t update much, but I think she’s brilliant. I also think you both would get along very well.
She writes at stumptown.typepad.com, she’s a co-founder of skeledog.com, and her homepage is strongsilent.com where she blogs about her print shop work (but she seems to have torn it up at the moment for reconstruction so it doesn’t look anything like normal now). Would you just keep an eye on these sites? If you love anything you find there, writing about it would make me very happy. : ) Neat idea!
Betsy wrote @
This is the loveliest and most generous thing! I would like something: an article on Oktober 5 praising anyone’s goodness who seems to need it most. You choose!
Dot wrote @
What a wonderful idea! I think what I would like is to think of a way that I can be as generous to my readers, although I doubt I could equal your idea!
Oktober Five wrote @
OK, so I put up presents in those squares that people have reserved, and when I get done with that present, I’ll put up the avatar and link. If you have a preference for the avatar image and link, please let me know; otherwise, I’ll use the avatar and link given in the comment.
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ryan-1 wrote @
I like the initative. Put up something regarding what inspired you to do this 100-squares idea.
Dot wrote @
Thanks for my square, Okt. I’m still thinking about my project. I wish this would go viral!
TJ Hirst wrote @
Glad to find you again and so impressed with what you’re doing. I’ve tried to think of a wonderful altruistic and creative present to ask for. . . Still waiting on that. I don’t want to miss my chance to receive your talents, so here goes . . . Will you write a guest post over at my website near the end or at the end of your 100 Days of Christmas project and tell us (with as much honesty as possible) what you learned from the experience?
Jamie Simmerman wrote @
This is an awesome idea Oktober! How about a guest post on Blue Duck? (I’ve actually been thinking about emailing you about that all week, this just pushed it to the forefront!)
Look for a little promotion on this idea later today. :)
Marelisa wrote @
Hi Oktober 5th: For Christmas I want a laptop computer so that I can blog from my favorite café, sitting by the pool, or at the beach (dry season is coming up). Thank you :-)
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Marelisa wrote @
Oh, I thought you were creating a vision board of things people wanted for Christmas. Well, I guess now everyone knows I want a laptop for Christmas! From you I would want a photograph I could put on my blog as part of one of my blog posts (so it could be about creativity, productivity, or simplicity). Sorry I didn’t understand before ;-)
Lance wrote @
What a wonderful project, and way to give back – you are awesome!
For Christmas, I would like something that shows nature. A natural setting brings me much peace and comfort. With winter setting in here, I will be out a bit less amongst the beauty of our natural world. And what a way for me to continue to experience it, right here from the comfort of my home!
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[...] had paid us an unnervingly high number of compliments. O5 has a wonderful project going called 100 Squares for Christmas, a beautiful, selfless concept that truly mirrors the spirit of giving. You can pick a square and [...]
Jill wrote @
For Christmas I would want God to help my homeless friend find a job and get back on her feet.
Jessica wrote @
Your blog is wonderful. I’m pretty fortunate so I don’t actually want or need anything for Christmas but if you really want to, you could pass it on to someone else:)
(I found you via Blue Duck via Twitter)
Oktober Five wrote @
Jessica — Thanks! And I’m glad you stopped by because I find your type of writing (on your blog) particularly inspiring when I’m trying to be funny.
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Mike Goad wrote @
Ryan, Glad to see you’re back up and on-line… and, yes, I’m subscribing to your new feed.
Cricket wrote @
Hey Ryan. I have been out of commission myself. This looks good over here. I am stuck in a “lack of expression” zone on my blog.
With that being said, for Christmas I would like inspiration. Whatever form you wish to provide me…I need inspiration. Simple enough? You are creative. You can fulfill this wish. You were there in the beginning of my “new/other” blog so take the lead. Ho Ho Ho…Tis the Season to be Jolly.
Ari Koinuma wrote @
For Christmas, I want peace and safety within my family. I feel a bit embarrassed by how ordinary this sounds, but parenting two little children have been an immense challenge.
ari
Dr. Cason wrote @
Giving that this is my first time on this site I feel funny asking something for Christmas, but here goes…
I want families to know how beautiful Guam is and to treat their children with love and respect.
Kyddryn wrote @
Hmm. What would I ask a relative stranger for, for Christmas? A relative stranger online, no less, which is “stranger” squared…
I cannot think of anything befitting the generosity of the offer, so I must fall back on something old, tired, and not terribly original: a book. What is one non-religious book (or two, or three, or twenty) that helped shape your mind, your philosophy, your vision of your perfect self?
Will that do? I must admit not being able to fully grok your meaning, but I’m often muddled in realtime, so why not in the blue nowhere as well??
Shade and Sweetwater,
K
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Betty Duffy wrote @
Dear Oktober5, I’m going to be really selfish and request something just for me. Moreover, it is likely impossible that you could give it to me. Here it is: Supposedly any day now, I’m going to have a fifth baby. You’d think, having done this a few times before I’d feel really confident and capable. Not so. I feel anxious. Having babies hurts, and it takes a long time (at least for me), and then afterwards…well… it’s all a bit uncomfortable. I would like to have one of those “teenager in the bathroom at the prom” labors, where she goes in, drops a baby, and out she goes, back to the dancefloor. Anyway you can make that happen, and how much would you charge?
davinahaisell wrote @
Hi Oktober5 – I’ll take a square! Like this idea.
I just read your post on how to simplify decisions and was nodding my head throughout. I really wanted to leave you a comment there to say how excellent I thought it was, so instead I’ll leave it here!
I especially enjoyed that phrase, “It seems a little drastic, but maybe your life needs a taste of drastic in order for you to get your act together.”
What I would like for Christmas? Prayers for my faith and efforts to carry me into success in 2009.
thrilled by the thought wrote @
Wow, what a fun idea! Am I too late to the game? Can you make buttons or snazzy graphics for my site? I’m raising money for schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and I would love to have a cool graphic people could click that would bring them to the information about the fundraiser.
[...] This post was inspired by a recent post by Oktober Five. He blogs about how we talk about what we don’t have. He says, “All it takes to see past what you don’t have is to see one thing you do.” To give us one thing that we can say we do have, he offers some specific services free to the first one hundred “online neighbors” who request them. The recipients of the gifts appear on his 100 Squares for Christmas page. [...]
[...] This post was inspired by a recent post by Oktober Five. He blogs about how we talk about what we don’t have. He says, “All it takes to see past what you don’t have is to see one thing you do.” To give us one thing that we can say we do have, he offers some specific services free to the first one hundred “online neighbors” who request them. The recipients of the gifts appear on his 100 Squares for Christmas page. [...]
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My name is Ryan. My personality as well as worth is magically communicated in this about section. Do you see it yet? Me neither.
I don’t want anything other than to say what a wonderful and generous idea. If you want to, you’re going to go far in this blogging stuff. Very cool, man!