community

A garden of kindness

Placing Kindness Rocks throughout neighboring communities I started painting Kindness Rocks with my daughter in April for Random Acts of Kindness Day. Well, it has caught on and we now have a Facebook group with 300 community members and we’ve built a Kindness Rocks Garden at our local library with the help of the children’s…

The Secret Garden

At the end of a street is a driveway that winds upward leading to a parking lot with ten or so spots where I suppose people gather for their lunch breaks, a quick nap, a phone call, a smoke, etc. I stumbled upon this place with a view eight years ago. We were leasing a…

God really blessed us

As a single mom, it was always difficult to provide the basics for my kids. We lived in a very small mountain community where everyone knew each other. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Messenger Email Share

The greatest gift is time

When I was at school, there was a program in 9th, 10th and 11th grade in which the students had to do some social service. When I was going to do my service for the first time, I was very excited but also scared for all the new experiences I would pass through. Facebook Twitter…

Honoring an Air Force Veteran

. Back near the beginning of the year I was entrusted with honoring a 20 year old Air Force veteran who had committed suicide by journeying to scatter the ashes. My heart broke for his family. It still does. I offered to take him to Mt Bachelor, Oregon. I thought I’d take the lift up, scatter…

My Smile Sharing Experience

. In the county where I was raised I never once saw anyone speak to a stranger, smile, wave, or say anything at all in passing. Then one day, I got this idea to do an experiment; to smile first and see what kind of effect it had on people. Initially, I’d try to first…

Gabriella

There was a man who had cancer. His buddies had a motorcycle run to help him out by raising some money for him. They called it the Brotherhood of Love run. He started to improve and the next year for July 4th he gathered up a few of us and asked if we thought we…