This is wonderful, Lovendures! Free oyster shells pickup from a number of major restaurants aid the recycling movement and aquaculture for future oyster habitat! Win-win!
So, this may sound silly, but I am sitting here working at home and watching the Today Show. It is International Day of the Girl today and they had Michelle Obama on speaking and are having concerts there in the plaza with various women artists and stories of women leaders who are doing great things in their communities. All I could think of as I was watching and listening was, they are raising the vibration! This is inspiring and encouraging in a time when the news, etc., is so dark. This is just filled with light and inspiration and energy. I am loving it and the world needs it so much right now! The rise of the feminine, indeed!
Here's a story that inspired me yesterday. A 98 year old woman who still volunteers at a local shelter for victims of domestic abuse in Minnesota.
That is amazing RosieHeart! As a lifelong volunteer, I know the energy and commitment it takes and 98 is above and beyond. Bless that dear woman's heart ? May she continue to be a beacon and shine her light for many more people!
What a story. Wow. I love everything about it. That it originated with high school kids, that a single oyster can clean 50 gallons of water a day, and can even help save NYC from climate flooding. I also love that a local politician is getting tax breaks for restaurants who participate in recycling their oysters. This is what politicians should be doing. So nice.
This is just a really dear story thst made the news this week in memory of Albert Lexie.
Albert Lexie was a very special man who shined shoes with a small purple cart for 30 years of his life but a truly good man who will never be forgotten.
Albert shined shoes at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He saved all of his tips every day for all of his years of work and donated them back to the free children's section of the hospital so that no child should ever go untreated because of the inability to pay.
By his death after 30 years of working there, he had left behind over $200,000 in donations. All just by donating his tips from a simple little purple shoe shine stand in the lobby.
Albert was a beloved member of the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital family and he will always be remembered for his kindness and generosity.
A good man doing great deeds in his own humble but very caring ways.
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/10/16/childrens-hospital-shoeshine-man-albert-lexie-dies/
LOVE this one.
In a' historic moment' for climate action, Wales pledges to leave its remaining coal in the ground.
Wales' new proposed plan to reject all future coal mining applications is set to be finalized by the end of the year, a government spokesperson https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-wales-45887196%2 0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the BBC last week, as part of the country's new energy strategy which will aim to ensur
Wow, that's a wonderful news. Kudos to Wales! The US might be failing the rest of the world with the lack of environmental leadership and responsibility but we just might be inspiring others to be better, do better in the ways they know can impact their own leadership and responsibility.
David Simpson is donating his kidney to a young woman this month and their story is so much more than one amazing humanitarian helping another.
It is a longer story and worth reading about in detail. David Simpson, 57, and his wife Kathy, 56, have pushed the boundaries of their lives and what they felt called to do.
In 2010, they began helping friends of their son's, Santiago. It was SO meaningful that David quit his job and dedicated his life to helping other young people.
Soon, they had 8 extra young people in their home and when all their 3 bedrooms kn a modest house were full, they convinced neighbors to take on a few more.
They also help an extended family of about 40 through a non-profit they created called "All Our Kids" or AOL! And amazingly have been supported by those like Go-to Ma, Joshua Bell, and Citizen Cope.
AOK is now supporting 40 students in college and many more in a variety of different ways. All from one good man, with one very good idea, spreading out into the world by helping and connecting with others.
Along the way, one of the kids currently living in his home needed a kidney so David Simpson got tested. Against the odds, he was, of course, a match. Last week this young woman was given the gift of life by a good man who had offered her a place in his heart, and in his home.
A good man, doing great things, one helpful person at a time now exponentially becoming greater and greater, bigger and bigger and doing even more good out into his world,
Read the whole story. Fantastic! Thanks for sharing Michele!