After losing someone she
loved, artist Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned house in her
New Orleans neighborhood with chalkboard paint and stenciled the
sentence, "Before I die I want to _____." Within a day of the wall's
completion, it was covered in colorful chalk dreams as neighbors stopped
and reflected on their lives. Since then, more than four hundred Before
I Die walls have been created by people all over the world. This
beautiful hardcover book is an inspiring celebration of these walls and
the stories behind them. Filled with hope, fear, humor, and heartbreak,
Before I Die presents an intimate portrait of the dreams within our
communities and a chance to ponder life's ultimate question. @goodreads
I have had this book for awhile. I got it from Book Outlet and I'm so
glad I did, it made me feel so good to read about what this lady started
all over the world.
The front and back cover of this book is beautiful. It looks like the walls that are out there in the world.
While
looking for photo's from the book, I freaking found that we have a wall
here in Chattanooga! YES! It's down the interstate toward downtown
though. =( Most of my good friends on here know I have agoraphobia (fear
of leaving the house) and my panic disorder causes all kinds of
problems being in a car. It takes all I can to ride to my doctor's
appointments. Luckily they are all about 5 minutes away. But, this wall
will not be something I can handle to go and write on. Maybe that should
be one of my goals, to make it to that wall. Here is a woman in
Chattanooga getting ready to write on the wall.
From the link I read, our wall was revealed in June of this year (2017) and it was set up by Hospice and some others.
I
decided I'm making my own wall, but inside a notebook. I think it is a
wonderful thing to have and I want to write down any and everything. I
thought about talking to dad about making one and putting it right in
our front yard!
Here are a few pictures of some other walls.
This
book was put out in 2013 (at least my edition was) so there are
probably millions of these places that haven't been documented yet. I
think they might have a website too. I would think so.
In this book is says there are over 200 walls created on 6 continents & 40+ countries. I think that is amazing.
Well, I was looking for an inspirational book and I found it ♥
Here is a little thing I made of a few of the comments on the walls.
Also,
at the end of the book it gives you instructions on how to make your
own wall. Getting permission, materials, stencils etc. I think it's
perfect, just perfect.
Mel ♥
GOODREADS REVIEW:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2094292426
Oh wow!! Wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing. Definitely adding this to my TBR!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much =) I hope you enjoy it as much as I did ♥
DeleteWow this is a brilliant idea, this is the first time I heard about these walls. I have to see online if there is any of these walls near where I live at. Thank you so much for the amazing post and review my friend.
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome dear! I hope you have one near you =)
DeleteWow Mel! First of all, AWESOME REVIEW!!! I am so glad I went went back to look for some of your reviews that I missed! I NEED to read this book!!! This is so awesome that they have these walls!! I should look on
ReplyDeleteonline and see if there's one near me.
Oh, wow! That is truly incredible. I looked up about those walls, and there's a location close to me, so I might go see one in person! And I definitely want that book!!!
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