Another participant writes:

I couldn't figure out how to post directly to your blog so here is my current project. I also sent my husband to work with extra cupcakes for the cleaning crew at his office. I hope it is a nice surprise after what is probably a long hard day of cleaning up after everyone else.
http://ctpta.org/About-CT-PTA/SANDY-HOOK-FUND.html
My first plan! I love cutting out snowflakes and will work on this tonight. I've been having a hard time trying to decide what to do, this little action gives me great pleasure to be doing something.

http://ctpta.org/About-CT-PTA/SANDY-HOOK-FUND.html

(the snowflake one)

Some questions have been asked so I thought I would share the questions and answers for everyone:

• Should each person do 27 deeds?
  Each person can participate in as flexible a way as they choose.  I am going to do 27 things and I will probably have a specific person in mind when I do it.  For instance, one of the children wanted to start an animal shelter, so one of my things will be for an animal in a shelter.  However, this is completely individual.  You can do 27 or you can do one.  You could bake 27 cakes and distribute them to people in your town square.  Whatever you can think of that is meaningful to you, do it.
• ok. then what do i do
  After your acts, you can write about it, send a picture to me for posting, or just enjoy what you have done.  I will gladly publish each and every submission.  I feel that compiling the multitude of good things we will all do will be a concrete reminder and help in the bleakness of that day.
  
  
  This is simple and low tech.  Go out and do something kind.  Share if you wish.  Enjoy!

From an anonymous participant:

a few words- there are no pictures of the small interactions that I'm trying to make better. Letting someone go in front of me in line. A word of encouragement for a harried person on the register. A warm word of encouragement for an exhausted mother. Maybe a smile and some talk with an awkward child. I want to find those who feel alone and make them feel a little less alone. So no, no pictures of that.

I invite you to participate in a simple project to honor the people lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  I am committing to 27 acts to honor each life.  I would like to invite masses of people to participate in this and we can post the acts here anonymously.  The acts can be small-- making cookies for your neighbor-- or large-- let your imagination soar.

an excerpt from Stephen Jay Gould after 9-11:

..." Thus, in what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by ten thousand acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible as the “ordinary” efforts of a vast majority.
Thus, we face an imperative duty, almost a holy responsibility, to record and honor the victorious weight of these innumerable little kindnesses, when an unprecedented act of evil so threatens to distort our perception of ordinary human behavior. . . ."