Back To School Backpacks
One of the things the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I do every year is donate at least one new backpack to the Little Free Library.
Sometimes we receive these backpacks from companies as schwag or some other giveaway. Sometimes we buy the backpack.
Then we leave it, with a sign ‘Free To A Good Home’ attached to it, before 3pm on a school day at the Little Free Library closest to the nearest primary school. Kids get out shortly after that time. And the backpack is always picked up the first day by someone.
One year, I was fortunate to see the kid who picked up the backpack. The little boy had a clearly done-at-home haircut. His clothes were worn yet clean. He was carrying his books and papers in his hands.
Yes, folks, he didn’t have ANYTHING to carry his books in.
His female guardian (likely his Mom) saw the backpack first. The relief on her face was palpable. She gave it to the boy.
The boy cheered, lifting it above his head like it was a trophy he’d won.
Children like this boy is why we donate these backpacks. We changed two lives that day. And that was so simple and easy to do.
(smiles)
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How To Retain Your Humanity During Dark Times
The world is admittedly a tire fire right now.
(big hugs)
Terrible people are doing and supporting terrible things.
It is dang easy to become less caring, less generous, less…human.
But being kind, generous, caring is what makes us amazing. Acts of kindnesses make life worth living.
And it is what makes us…us.
We need to hold onto this part of us.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I challenge each other to make at least one other person’s or one other creature’s life better every dang day.
This could be as easy as picking up a piece of trash. Or holding the door open for someone. Or buying a 99 cent can of corn and putting it in the food bank donation box. Or leaving a previously loved book in the Little Free Library. Or putting a container of water out for the birds on a hot day.
We do this and we feel…human again.
We feel that the world is a little kinder because WE made it a little kinder.
And we realize or hope we’re not alone in this.
Hold onto your humanity, my friends.
(big hugs)
It makes you you.
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