This week a local business told our education foundation (I’m on the board) that they weren’t having their office holiday party this year, and so were donating the money they would have spent to our fund for elementary school kids in need.
My husband is immunocompromised and working entirely from home, I'm retired. We've been using curbside from Walmart and a grocery store since mid-March. Sometime later in the spring, a friend from when my kids were little, who I seldom see, texted and said that she was shopping for herself and another homebound couple and could she get us anything? And since then she has been our Costco angel, buying us cheese and staples, once or twice a month. She mentioned it to a friend and that person texted to say she was going to the nursery and did we need any tomato plants? These quiet acts of kindness mean a lot to me.
We have a number of small businesses in town who jumped onto online selling as soon as lockdown happened. You can text them, FB message them, email them, call them and they will get what you want and have it for you at the door if you don't want to go in the store. I am so thankful for them and their tireless efforts to help us, help us keep them in business and help keep everyone safe.
What do I have for you?? Much gratefulness and thanksgiving for all the good souls in the world, for all the blessed goodness that is happening in the midst of the craziness and chaos. And, of course, gratitude for books and for your posts, Chris.
This week a local business told our education foundation (I’m on the board) that they weren’t having their office holiday party this year, and so were donating the money they would have spent to our fund for elementary school kids in need.
My husband is immunocompromised and working entirely from home, I'm retired. We've been using curbside from Walmart and a grocery store since mid-March. Sometime later in the spring, a friend from when my kids were little, who I seldom see, texted and said that she was shopping for herself and another homebound couple and could she get us anything? And since then she has been our Costco angel, buying us cheese and staples, once or twice a month. She mentioned it to a friend and that person texted to say she was going to the nursery and did we need any tomato plants? These quiet acts of kindness mean a lot to me.
We have a number of small businesses in town who jumped onto online selling as soon as lockdown happened. You can text them, FB message them, email them, call them and they will get what you want and have it for you at the door if you don't want to go in the store. I am so thankful for them and their tireless efforts to help us, help us keep them in business and help keep everyone safe.
What do I have for you?? Much gratefulness and thanksgiving for all the good souls in the world, for all the blessed goodness that is happening in the midst of the craziness and chaos. And, of course, gratitude for books and for your posts, Chris.