This Saturday the Orange County Museum of Art opens a new exhibition: Overshare by French artist Sophie Calle. In times of duress, great or small, I try to ask myself what is one thing I can do to make myself feel even a little bit better. Many years ago I went to an apartment exhibition in San Francisco by artist Josh Greene. I remember it as a conceptual project where you could buy anything for a small sum. I focused on a small black and white photograph of a plush and elaborate bed, which I bought. As I did, Josh told me about when in 1999, after a recent romantic break up, distraught and tying to come up with a way to heal, he imagined himself grieving in Sophie Calle’s bed. So he wrote to her (they had never met), shared his story, and she sent him her bed (from Paris to San Francisco)—mattress, sheets, pillows, comforter, blankets—all of it. He slept in her bed until he recovered and then sent it back six months later. There are letters and emails that accompany what became a collaborative artwork “Journey to California” for them both. And I live with the photo of Sophie’s bed in Josh’s apartment that he took—a reminder of the kindness of strangers and the power of (over)sharing.