We need to find meaning. We need to be useful. We need to know that who we are matters. I give, you give, we all give.
Diane says: you need to check out “Bead for Life” which is an organization helping women in Uganda. great success story there!
MaryJane says: Will do! Thanks.
Eileen Widman says: This is so exciting! Wish I could have found a group like this when I was younger and had big dreams for a business of my own.
Imagine if some of the money you spent dining out was donated to women less fortunate than you.
Now imagine the sum total of the Farmgirl Sisterhood’s dining bill donation. Ka-ching!
Now I understand just why I have been drooling over the girls prom dresses on fb. I need a fancy dressup dress JUST BECAUSE
Colleen, one of our store employees in town, told me that a couple of weeks ago, the morning after we received close to two feet of snow, she experienced a stranger’s kindness while shoveling snow. A young man walked up, relieved her of her shovel, and spent the next 45 minutes clearing the sidewalk. But what really spoke to Colleen was this …
Jen says: At a very young age I taught my boys (now 22 &24) to everyday do one R. A. K… random act of kindness and to not take any money for doing so. Over the years I witnessed them practicing this over and over. To this day they do “nice” things for people/strangers and don’t even think twice. If more people would do at least one R.A.K. a day this would be a better world..
What a lovely tale. It is so nice when one is reaffirmed that kind folks still are around!
Aaaaaah! That felt really good.
Thank you for the sweet stories of goodness. What goes around does come around.
Jennifer says: If everyone in America did small acts of kindness every day, what a wonderful nation we would be!
Melissa says: Such a heartwarming story. It’s nice to know that good kindhearted giving people are among us. If everyone would just take the time to do something nice every day what our world would be like.
The look on the younger gal is adorable…she is so not happy. Love the colors in the big blue sky, rolling green hills and of course that georgous orange hair!
Oh, what a great photo 🙂 🙂 I’d love to be out in the open air counstryside like that 😉 🙂 Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather 🙂
Linda says: Very pretty picture… Where is this at… Very pretty farm as well….
MaryJane says: This is a photo taken at our farm during one of our annual Farm Fairs. The young woman with braids was giving pony rides to the children in attendance. About 3,000 people came over the course of two days.
Break out your binoculars, girls, you’re needed on the frontlines.
The approach of February might give you the blues, or the grays, depending on what part of the country you inhabit. Chin up. Come clouds or chilly temperatures, a mission awaits you.
Are you game? …
Bridget Coyle says: I’ve always wanted to do this, I guess this is the time to just do it.
Thank you for all the information.
I love tatting!! I had never heard of it, and no one else around here in NC had either, so I taught myself from your stitching room book, and I fell in love!! Now I do it in my spare time, and people are just amazed!!
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I could call this “photo of the YEAR”! Love fall, love old bicycles, LOVE farmgirl romance! Love,Love,Love!