SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir project has seen a lot of incredible iterations: six-word classroom projects, six-word prayers, appearances in hacking conferences and museums of art, partnerships with places such as The National Constitution Center and Bono’s One.org.
And now Six-Word Memoirs will be a mystery in a bottle. Or rather, a “prize” under an Honest Tea bottle cap. Call it our adult, writerly version of the unknown treasure at the bottom of the box of Cracker Jacks. I’ve been digging for prizes, decoding secret messages, peeling back labels, and popping open bottle caps for as long as I can remember. So, when our first book of Six-Word Memoirs was about to come out, I sent Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman a message—I just guessed his email and told him the honest truth: I love your tea—it’s tasty. I love your company—it has a socially conscious mission. Just as one of SMITH Mag’s core beliefs is to make better media, not simply more media, I wrote, you’re making a better drink, not just another drink. And I think SMITH’s Six-Word Memoirs are a perfect match for Honest Tea’s bottle caps. Seth replied: I love it, let’s do it.
This week, 100+ of the most thoughtful, inspiring, insightful, and funny Six-Word Memoirs can be found under around a million bottle caps across the country. Maybe it’s just me, but the little things in life—like reading short, short life stories in bottles of Black Forest Berry or Pomegranate Red Tea with Goji—give me a sweet little kick of inspiration. But just a tad sweet—that’s the Honest Tea and six-word way. Want your Six-Word Memoir inside a bottle cap? Shares yours on the Six-Word Memoir project, and now you’ll be considered for a bottle cap as well as a book (and in case your dream differs from ours, we’ll always check with you first).
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Susan Dyrud MacDonald
Yay! That is real neat! I hope I get under a cap! 🙂
Sfie Bee
I might but I might not.
goji bio
Good Job for your article 😉
FThomasCain
Life is short
then you die!
FTC
All man’s accomplishments
means absolutely nothing!
Sheila L.
Life is temporary
Live every day
Frederick T. Cianci
Live your life
before it’s over
Loon
Better tea capped than tea bagged.
Loon
Drink Me! Then Un Drink Me…
Loon
Drink me, then set me free.
AMANDA DIAL
ALWAYS UP FOR A “HONEST” TRY
Loon
Black cat ate my four-leaf clover.
Loon
Thumbs feverishly text formerly unsaid crap.
Loon
My mortgage fell, can’t get up.
Loon
My grandchildren feed me Play-Doh burgers.
Loon
Old teeth turn amber, like sunset.
Loon
Love is an intimate stranger’s kiss.
Loon
Dalai Lama caught eating Double Whopper.
Loon
Vodka plus Honest Tea: honest glee.
Loon
Hope I don’t win the lottery.
Loon
Summertime is littluns slurping drippy popsicles.
Loon
Ageless rope swings laugh at mortality.
Loon
Please and Thank You are symbiotic.
Loon
Fingernail clippings make shrapnel look tame.
Loon
We should’ve shared more happy meals.
Loon
Hemingway’s shoes took Sixers’ first step.
Loon
Honest Tea makes round world go.
Loon
You’re being surrounded by coffee drinkers.
Loon
Lost again. Smooched the Old Maid.
Loon
Mommy and Daddy wrestled like that.
Loon
Constipated astronaut loves his Prune Tang.
Loon
Divorce diet: Lost a whole person
Loon
Squirt water out before applying mustard.
Loon
Eighty-seven toddlers pee simultaneously: heated pool
Loon
Cell phones camouflage selves when sought.
Loon
Baby-Boomer,Free-Love Loser, Mid-Life Boozer, St. Peter Schmoozer
Loon
Life slowly goes far too quickly.
Loon
I’m a vegan, unless home alone.
Loon
You don’t look thirty. Thirty-eight maybe.
Loon
Mom secretly chews tobacco in bed.
Loon
Gimme, gimme, I’m a selfIsh knucklehead.
Loon
Mom treated head lice with respect.
Loon
Even Mom stole my lunch money.
Loon
Oddly, most women prefer men soft.
Loon
My grandson’s hands are bungee hooks.
Loon
Does anybody read these six-worders? — need some feedback
Loon
am i on the right track here? is anybody out there? wish i had a rooster….
Loon
With Honest Tea, no tea bagging.
Loon
Will Honest Tea please contact Loon?
Loon
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Loon
Tea for two: Buy yer own)
Loon
Brits have tea-time; Yanks, Honest Tea.
Loon
Honest teetotalers drink only Honest Tea.
Dick Sargent
I came, I saw, I drank.
Dick Sargent
I came, I saw, I drank……
Tim Edib
Keep mind full and bowels empty
andrew mack
Life’s a beach so just relax
andrew mack
Help! I’m stuck
Let me out
wordie
I live life to the fullest.
gregory guy sherman
an insult from a fool , is a complement to the wise.
Cindi Scott
Really be a fabulously extravagant giver!