HumanKind.. Be Both

[GiggLeGasm]

That last message was for YOU my dear...but then read the one below yours...and think prayers and thoughts are needed there as well..and a hug too! (I have lots of them to hand out!)

Thank you so much

I had the coolest experience today. Our National Guard is here to help out. I'm working very closely with them and was able to be present for a small recognition ceremony where our General coined the sergeant providing oversight. It was just the most special thing ever and a great reminder of how important it is to publicly acknowledge one another.

 

[cascadiabound]

I've missed seeing regular posts on this thread.

 

[cascadiabound]

“Last night I bought a sunflower to put on the windshield of someone I’m smitten with.
After some consideration, I decided not to since we had only been on one date, the night previous. Don’t want to come off too strong, right?
Anyway, I grabbed the flower on my way out this morning with the intention to give it to someone on my way to work so it didn’t die alone.
What happened next has left me changed in ways I don’t even have words for yet.
While I was sitting and drinking my morning joe at the coffee shop (which I typically take to go), I saw a woman reading something with tears quietly and quickly sliding down her pale face.
It was like there was a magnet in the sunflower that was being drawn to her, because I knew in that moment she was who I was going to give the sunflower to; she was who I had to give it to.
When I got to her table I said, ‘Hey, pardon me. I have this sunflower that I was hoping to give to someone special and that someone I had in mind didn’t work out, but I can feel that you’re special too, so I want you to have it.’
Before I could even hand her the sunflower, this complete stranger flew into my arms with tears flowing, and gratitude spewing, as if I was someone she once loved, and lost.
It’s what she said next that I’m still trying to grip.
She was crying because her fiancé had died the week before, just months before they were going to get married.
On their first date, he brought her a sunflower and from then on, got her sunflowers, never roses, because she was the light of his life.
Today, through me, he was able to show her that she’ll always be the light of his life and how we as humans have a message to carry that goes far beyond words.
I’m shaken, awakened, and feeling raw.
You never know how much a simple gesture of giving someone a $5 flower will change their life, as well as yours. Life is about giving and being of service to others.
I challenge you all to find a way to make someone else’s life just a little bit brighter today and be of service. You never know the impact you could have.”

Credit: Danny Wakefield

 

[cascadiabound]