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“It’s always fun to
see on Facebook if
someone discovered
our rock, but the
most important
thing is that our
rock made some-
one smile, whether
we found out about
it or not.”

— ANDREA GOREVITZ STIERNA

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brought back painted Memphis
rocks they’d found to rehide locally.
They’re always looking for cre-
ative hiding spots. “My kids have left
rocks on shelves in grocery stores, in
parks, all over,” Zwick said. Almost
any place is fair game, except Disney
World which doesn’t allow it, and
national parks whose “leave it as
you found it” policy is not consistent
with painted rocks.
Most meaningful was when Zwick
and Emma rehid a rock with a reas-
suring message near a hospital; they
later saw that the finder had posted
a picture of that rock, sharing that
her grandmother had found it on the
way to a cancer treatment and it had
made her day.
Andrea Gorevitz Stierna, 45, of
Madison Heights, is an active mem-
ber of Berkley Rocks and Southeast
Michigan Rocks. She paints with her
son, Ethan, 10, and the kids she takes
care of through her nanny position.
Last year, she took rocks and paint
supplies to Ethan’s third-grade class
at Norup School in Berkley and got
his whole class involved.
“It’s a wonderful, fun thing to do
with kids,” she said.
Andrea usually paints motivation-
al words and phrases and Ethan’s
rocks often includes his favorite
Minecraft characters.
Not all their rocks are part of the
game; they often visit the cemetery
with their hand-painted rocks
which, in keeping with Jewish tradi-
tion, they place on family members’
graves.
Like the Zwicks, their painted

rocks also joined the
Stiernas on their sum- ABOVE:
Madelyn Zwick;
mer vacation. They
Ethan Stierna.
drove from Michigan
to Florida, hiding
rocks at each stop. “It’s always fun to
see on Facebook if someone discov-
ered our rock, but the most impor-
tant thing is that our rock made
someone smile, whether we found
out about it or not,” she said.
Stierna said the smiles are conta-
gious, the painting is hugely relaxing
and that the entire rock painting,
hiding and finding endeavor bought
them closer together as a family. She
is looking forward to doing it again
this summer.
Baldwin pointed out that there are
many wonderful “side effects” of the
rock painting trend, such as the fam-
ily walks to find rocks, which means
not only more exercise and family
time, but also more foot traffic to
local businesses where rocks are
often hidden. Most of all, Baldwin
said, kids learn tremendous lessons.
“They’re creating and putting
rocks out there, knowing they have
made someone smile, learning to
share, learning that the rocks aren’t
meant to be collected, but rather re-
hidden to spread more joy to others.”
With such a win-win-win like
that, there’s only one thing to say:
Rock on! •