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Parisian Penny Pick-up

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I did it! I took the Penny Project on the road in a serious way. All the way to Paris, France! I will let the three photos I took do most of the talking, but ... let me just say how awesome the experience was. I mean totally. A rush of emotions, mostly happy excitement and exuberance. A sharing, albeit a secret one. A new and renewed belief in the power of the positive. You all should try it! Here's what happened: It was my second day in Paris and I decided to take the Rick … [Read more...]

The Penny Project: Doing pennies

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I woke up on Memorial Day and was suddenly in a panic. I've been in this sort of panic before, but never to this degree. A few years ago, four to be exact, I was panicking because I did not have a place, a physical place to go to, to talk to my brother, to pay my respects, if you will. Dan, my oldest brother, had passed away the year before, in 2011. His wife had taken his ashes with her and ... there was no marker here. By the next year, I had added a plaque for Dan at the base of the tree … [Read more...]

About the Penny Project

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I remember the first time we talked about pennies. Bob and I were standing and talking outside of the Flying M coffeehouse in Boise. We had just been inside talking about how people had been focusing far more on the negative than the positive. It was in the fall of 2002, so 9/11 was still a cloud looming over all, and people were very leery about strangers, or smiling at one another, or even just saying hello. Bob and I wanted to do something that would change that. We talked endlessly, it … [Read more...]

Send in YOUR Penny Post!

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Hello, Jeanne Huff aka Scarlett Jones here. I posted my most recent "doing pennies" story and it's a doozy -- I took it international! I want to invite all of you who visit this website and read about the act of "planting" heads-up pennies and then stepping back and watching and waiting -- I would like to invite you to please go ahead and give it a try. Set out on a Saturday morning with a few shiny new pennies in pocket and go to the Farmer's Market or a busy corner downtown. It is so … [Read more...]