This post is extremely difficult for me to write. Nothing we do will ever bring back any of the victims of the December 14th 2012 shooting in Newtown, CT. Just to think of that day, and those lives lost, washes me in a feeling of sadness, and despair. The world continues to turn, we all go on, we went back to routines like putting our kids on the bus to school, and going to work. But we are changed. In an attempt to counterbalance the horror with some good, members of the Global Team of 200, including myself, are joining Ann Curry’s #26Acts of Kindness movement by participating in a blog relay and link-up of 26 Act of Kindness. We have committed to remembering the victims of the Newtown shooting with 26 bloggers posting for 26 days, each day highlighting one individual victim, and promoting the idea, initiated by Ann Curry, of 26 act of kindness.
“After the experience in Newtown. I thought, “What if? Imagine if everyone could commit to doing one act of kindness for every one of those children killed in Newtown.” So that’s what I tweeted. And guess what? People committed. I said in my tweet, “I’m in. RT if you’re in.” Not only did they commit to 20 acts of kindness, they wanted to up it to 26 acts of kindness for every child and adult who was lost at the school.”- Ann Curry
#26Acts of kindness will hopefully inspire ongoing, simple, daily acts that touch each other’s lives. Kindness to your loved ones or strangers, acts large or small. Acts of kindness towards each other to perhaps make this world a better place.
Nothing we do can bring Rachel D’Avino back to her family, to her boyfriend, soon to be fiancé, or to all of the possibilities her young life still held. Read the rest of this entry
