09-03-2007, 12:56 PM
While on a trip to New Zealand, I bought a small lapel angel made of bakers dough, with tiny lace wings. Where ever I wore that angel friends loved it.
I called the boutique in NZ, they were so surprised to get a call from the USofA really blew them away! So I ordered a dozen little pins and gave them my credit card number. Approximately 3 weeks later I received a small box with the pins worth over $150.00, in the box was a letter telling me that they did not have MC privileges so would I just drop them a money order! It made my day it made my week and my month, that someone half a world away had trust in me. I went to a San Francisco international bank and ordered that money order and sent it off the next day with a lovely letter telling them how wonderful it is to be trusted, a stranger so far away.
The movie "Pay It Forward", gave me the same feeling of awe, treating each other like we all count, like there is a purpose to be kind, much like Royal's sign off what goes around comes around (motto of the Hell's Angles motorcycle club for one, LOL). I believe it is true, and in the few cases where it isn't it make those few cases so much easier to ignore and move along.
The respect, the recognition of the human experience of each of us, is the feeling that makes me love Hawaii and the Puna.
Oh one more thing, no one cares if you wear make up or your cloths match either! So refreshing, so freeing, so marvelous.
mella l
I called the boutique in NZ, they were so surprised to get a call from the USofA really blew them away! So I ordered a dozen little pins and gave them my credit card number. Approximately 3 weeks later I received a small box with the pins worth over $150.00, in the box was a letter telling me that they did not have MC privileges so would I just drop them a money order! It made my day it made my week and my month, that someone half a world away had trust in me. I went to a San Francisco international bank and ordered that money order and sent it off the next day with a lovely letter telling them how wonderful it is to be trusted, a stranger so far away.
The movie "Pay It Forward", gave me the same feeling of awe, treating each other like we all count, like there is a purpose to be kind, much like Royal's sign off what goes around comes around (motto of the Hell's Angles motorcycle club for one, LOL). I believe it is true, and in the few cases where it isn't it make those few cases so much easier to ignore and move along.
The respect, the recognition of the human experience of each of us, is the feeling that makes me love Hawaii and the Puna.
Oh one more thing, no one cares if you wear make up or your cloths match either! So refreshing, so freeing, so marvelous.
mella l
mella l
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