3″x5″ note cards, but in half, with a simple word or phrase printed on one side. They were called possibility cards, and she took care to disperse them as widely and subtly as she could.

One might be under a napkin in the campus coffee shop; another might be pinned to a little-used corkboard in Old Engineering. The tawdry gossip rags in the library were a good place for them, as was the waiting area in the student health center.

The cards themselves? she liked to mix it up. Some were upbeat, some down. Some were profound, others were banal. A few might even be characterized as cold.

Here’s a sample of the possibility cards she distributed in one evening:

“Don’t worry.”
“It’s all the same to me.”
“Great!”
“Wonderful!”
“What if…?”
“Fantastic!”
“Listen!”
“It’s a perfect day for…”