Occasionally you come upon a person who awes you. Because these people are rare, they become precious. My chance meeting of 2010 is a person I’ve never met in real life, nor have I ever spoken to her on the phone.
Yet, we’ve emailed and texted each other hundreds of times. I go into withdrawals when 2 days go by without a peep from her. I look forward to the day when I’ll either head out to Tipp, Ohio or when she’ll visit me (wherever I’ll be).
As we developed this website it became a game between us where she’d list out the nutty things she’d jotted down that day. Anything handy and available became her notepad: a bill, her jeans, her daughter’s art pad, post-it notes, her hand… I’ve confessed that I pictured her as Velma (Scooby Doo’s do-gooder character) and now I see her leaving a trail of scribbled notes as she frantically tries to save the world.
She is a superhero who cries every time a new donation comes in… Tammie gives me faith in humanity. With my growing relationship with her, I know goodness exists and that there is hope for us yet.
But I cannot finish this post without sharing the goods… This is what makes her human:
- artwork
- thanks
- testimonial
- hook up w/the pj group someone told me about
- how to
- then, now, future of
- merchandise – zazzle?
- gift guidelines
- kids’ reaction stories
- creative ways to help
- scanner cord
- grocery . . . that last one is a personal reminder to me
currently written on the back of my electric bill:
- celeb tweets
- gift list
- account
- stores
- meeting
- return emails
- get to the grocery before mary calls 224-kids!
trailing behind me on purple post-its today:
- name tags
- account
- paypal
- santa
- video
- blog donors
- yearly stats
- goals
on my pants:
- amt per kid
- sponsor a kid
- have
- need
- pics
- mtg invitees
- agenda
- twshp bldg
- toilet paper and pull-ups
don’t tell mary I used her doodle pad:
- coffee
- pick up donation at pioneer electric
- transcribe article
- beg mark to come fix the printer/scanner
- timeline
- open separate account
- get carpets cleaned
ps – i’m a freakazoid today (I had to add this last item. This is how her emails may finish and what has increased my joy in helping her out)
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This is my way of helping you discover the person behind project Believe…
Marie
Comments(2)
Lea says
Jan 16,2011 at 9:58 amThis was a wonderful introduction to an amazing woman. Well done.
project believe says
Jan 18,2011 at 6:16 pmLea – Thank you.