You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
–Mary Oliver
17 Ways To Help
- Write a love poem to yourself. If you are willing, post it on the Molly site where a few already are.
- Make a video in which you answer the question: Who should I be?
⇒Yes, “should” is a loaded word, often with negative connotations. So turn it around and enjoy it. Who should you be as a parent or kid or worker or person? Not according to your parents or some toxic meme, but according to the soft animal of your body.
Our goal is to have a billion such videos on our YouTube channel. (If you make one drop it here. Thanks)
- Go to a store or café where you know the owners name or wish you did, a place that mills patrons into neighbors and pay too much for something.
- Take five dollars or five euros and thinking of one person or of five see how much joy you can generate. Do this anonymously.
- Award a dog or cat a point. A few examples here.
- Eat less meat. Sorry, nothing sexy here. Just can’t see an all beef diet as good for the grand kids.
- Make a piece of art (poem, film, even something made by someone else) and put it somewhere publicly without using your name. (Unless you are using someone else’s stuff, obviously.)
- Write a real letter to someone, you know on paper with a stamp. Send us your address and we will have someone write to you.
If the best thing we do is look after each other, then the worst thing we do is pretend to look after each other when in fact we are doing something else.
–Adam Phillips
Tell me about despair, your, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile, the world goes on.
–Mary Oliver
- Teach a course or host a group via Molly.
- Offer an hour of your time to a Molly Agent.
- Put 2000 or 5000 dollars or euros into the river so that we can hire an agent to do their thing and to give for a month.
- Sponsor someone to be in a $100,000 course. Molly promises it will be worth at least half that.
- Pay for 50 or 100 agents to join Molly Amsterdam in 2024 so that schools like ALA, LALA, Taktse and others can send contingents.
- Buy Molly House in Amsterdam. (This can be straight up investment for you unless Putin Nukes the part of the world.)
- Give 100 million dollars to schools willing to act more like a workshop, less like an assembly line.
- Put 900 million into the river so Molly can hire between 180,000-300,000 agents over the next thirty years to do their thing and make it rain.
- Tell us the thing you think should be on this list
