A loud alarm bell rings as you jump out of bed to reach for the clock. It’s 8:30 and class started it 8:00. You jump into sweats stained with last night’s ramen and an oversized hoodie and swing the front door open to scurry to class. Opening the door, the whole class looks as the Professor gives a snide remark for your tardiness. You sit and you think to yourself “It’s not going to be my day.”
Class finally ends, and as you’re walking with your headphones in and your arms folded you see a painted tag with the word onward written on it. You go to pick it up, and the back reads #taggedbykindness. You realize that the bad start to the morning doesn’t have to turn into a bad day, and you should move onward.
Small words of positivity can change a person’s perspective, put a smile on their face, and that is Saint Peter’s sophomore Olivia Nazzaro and Kristy Nazzaro’s plan with tagged by kindness.
Kristy Nazzaro, Olivia’s mother, started a blog with her own experiences and words of wisdom as a way to spread encouragement, and that’s what sprouted the idea for the tags.
“She started a blog a year or so ago called so-positive and it just talks about taking day to day things and making them positive,” Olivia said. “ Although things may not being going well, trying to see the positivity in any situation. She started doing this through the blog and that’s how she started making the tags.”
They are hand painted tags all with one of a kind designs to keep motivating messages in circulation everywhere and all the time.
“She would make them just to make someone’s day with something personal,” Olivia said. “She would leave them in library books, so every time she would get a book from the library and she would put them in there and then return it so people could find them and pass them along.”
Her mother’s love for art with a combination of an interest to spread positivity is what motivated her to make it larger.
“She started it and then her friends joined in, so they’ll meet up and make tags together,exchange them, take pictures, and spread them around, so it began to grow.”
They have an Instagram and website that posts pictures of the tags and explains to people their goal. They also use the hashtag #taggedbykindness to create a staple for their tags.
“She uses the hashtag on Instagram, so if you find one, you can post a picture of it and use the hashtag,” she said. “You can also look up the hashtag to see all of the other tags that have been found.”
Olivia is doing her part to help her mom fulfil her passion for delivering kindness.
“She just gave me some so I’m going to try and spread them around campus and when I go to New York I’m going to put them in random places,” she said. “I’m also going to take pictures of them so she can put them on her blog.”
The simple mission between a mother and daughter is growing into a movement they hope will keep people smiling.
The mission statement is: The #taggedbykindness project is a grassroots random act of kindness movement that delivers positivity and encouragement through small handcrafted tags of art.
Class finally ends, and as you’re walking with your headphones in and your arms folded you see a painted tag with the word onward written on it. You go to pick it up, and the back reads #taggedbykindness. You realize that the bad start to the morning doesn’t have to turn into a bad day, and you should move onward.
Small words of positivity can change a person’s perspective, put a smile on their face, and that is Saint Peter’s sophomore Olivia Nazzaro and Kristy Nazzaro’s plan with tagged by kindness.
Kristy Nazzaro, Olivia’s mother, started a blog with her own experiences and words of wisdom as a way to spread encouragement, and that’s what sprouted the idea for the tags.
“She started a blog a year or so ago called so-positive and it just talks about taking day to day things and making them positive,” Olivia said. “ Although things may not being going well, trying to see the positivity in any situation. She started doing this through the blog and that’s how she started making the tags.”
They are hand painted tags all with one of a kind designs to keep motivating messages in circulation everywhere and all the time.
“She would make them just to make someone’s day with something personal,” Olivia said. “She would leave them in library books, so every time she would get a book from the library and she would put them in there and then return it so people could find them and pass them along.”
Her mother’s love for art with a combination of an interest to spread positivity is what motivated her to make it larger.
“She started it and then her friends joined in, so they’ll meet up and make tags together,exchange them, take pictures, and spread them around, so it began to grow.”
They have an Instagram and website that posts pictures of the tags and explains to people their goal. They also use the hashtag #taggedbykindness to create a staple for their tags.
“She uses the hashtag on Instagram, so if you find one, you can post a picture of it and use the hashtag,” she said. “You can also look up the hashtag to see all of the other tags that have been found.”
Olivia is doing her part to help her mom fulfil her passion for delivering kindness.
“She just gave me some so I’m going to try and spread them around campus and when I go to New York I’m going to put them in random places,” she said. “I’m also going to take pictures of them so she can put them on her blog.”
The simple mission between a mother and daughter is growing into a movement they hope will keep people smiling.
The mission statement is: The #taggedbykindness project is a grassroots random act of kindness movement that delivers positivity and encouragement through small handcrafted tags of art.