RE|collections
“What if…” it had never been said?
“I’m proud of you,” or “Awesome job.”
“You’re just like...” or “I’m sorry, it’s…”
RE|collections is a place to pause and hear real words from people being real.
We don’t know the story everyone’s carrying or the words and sentences that changed their direction.
RE|collections are micro-glimpses from twenty somethings to seniors. Some will make you laugh. Others will make you cry.
They ask if we pay enough attention to words.
And if we pay enough attention to each other.
Then remind us none of us are alone.
Leave your words here
“What if…” They Can Make a Difference?
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
“Grocery — It was unrelenting. I decided to go by my first name Gregory in school that year. My 5th grade teacher had very messy handwriting...and I ended up as grocery”
“He was my hero and then called me a name when I was 13…I’ve spent a lifetime trying to prove him wrong — He was my brother.
—84 year old grandmother KS
“ You’re disowned…Your step-brothers will get everything I have.” Anonymous MN
“I don’t love you, but I like you because I have to…”
Mom would tell me that randomly — A from OK
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I’m proud of you! H.M. TX
“It’s just hormones…”
“The counselor said it at church camp — I haven’t been back to church since. She didn’t listen.” —Anonymous, Lenexa, KS
“You are off the charts with anxiety and depression…with an IQ of 148.”
2 days of testing to tell me the obvious. I can be the smartest guy in the room and the dumbest — at the same time! Anonymous, MO
“Why isn’t it an ‘A’?
My dad…if it wasn’t an A or the best trophy…I was asked “Why not?” A.M TX
“Your choice. Choose a demotion or I can make sure you get fired in 90 days anyway. ”