Restore faith in humanity

Please click here for a refreshing does of humanity.  It shows such a lovely spectrum.  One individual helping another, protecting animals, atoning for previous mistakes, business/corporations realizing they serve people, connections across cultures/faith.  Simply inspiring!!  Even though I do not do mitzvahs every day, is exciting to realize across the globe we all make an impact. 
Thanks for reading. 

Share My Hair

This one is kind of a repeat, as my fellow mitzvah mate also recently donated her hair.  But it takes me 2+ years to get a braid to donate, so I am going to post anyway.  And I doubled my doantion by soliciting an across the country relative to donate too (first timer!!).  A part of me hopes that since we have similar hair, it might end up in the same wig...
On another note, the nice woman whocut my hair steadfastly refused to accept payment (even a tip) for cutting and styling my hair.  She said that if I wanted to give money, I needed to give it to the  food bank acoss the way (which I will be doing).  She was willing to take some coupone from the book I mentioned previously (and another stylist got in on that action too, she was going to pass them on to a customer of hers.  I like the ripple effect). 

Small Gestures

There are few things that eat away at me more than the feeling of helplessness.  Recently, when a friend of mine told me that her husband had to be rushed to the hospital to have a pacemaker put in, I really wanted to do something to help.  Of course, I couldn't really do anything to help out directly, so I offered to go over and take their dog out.  It wasn't much, but it was all I could think to do, and she was quite appreciative that she wouldn't have to keep going back and forth to the hospital to let the dog out.  Anyway, when I got there, I noticed that the curtains she wanted hung up in her bedroom were still sitting in the hall, and the microwave that they bought a year ago was still sitting on the kitchen floor.  So, I recruited my husband and when we came back later to let the dog out again, we put up the curtains and installed the microwave.  They are an older couple, and even though it's difficult for them to do some things, they are rarely willing to ask for help, for fear of putting anybody out.  It took a couple of hours and a couple of trips to the hardware store, but in the end, it was a great gift to my friend and her husband.  They were SO grateful for the work we did, you would have thought we gave them a million dollars.

 

My hubby working hard

The finished product (I forgot to get a picture of the curtains).

The Next Generation

My eldest child's preschool had a Scholastic order recently.  I had eagerly been awaiting the somewhat large order I placed.  As I picked up beautiful child, she said to me "mama, I really liked the books you got for me" and the teacher let me know that my lovely child happily shared her books with the whole class.  When I pointed this out to her, she got a big smile on her face, and said "I like to share with my friends"  It does a mama proud!!