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Submitted by The Flawger, FG4L, Featured Blogger
Alright, I’m not your average consumer. My shoes have holes everywhere you look, my clothing is from the thrift shop, and my underwear? Well let’s just leave it at, ‘I wear a clean pair every day!’ Point being, I don’t shop. The last 20 times I’ve been to a mall was to shop for gifts for other people. I was also 10 when those last 20 outings first occurred. Am I poor? Not at all, my life is full of richness and financially, The Flawger is going to be just fine J
But I do have to make a confession. I have spent money on clothing… for myself! I just found myself really REALLY wanting something I saw and felt like I had to have it. This must be that feeling that the rest of consumer America gets on a daily basis. I’ve been consumed with consumership!
What is it that I saw that I just had to have? FeelGood aparrel! It’s SOOOOOO cool looking! And all the proceeds go to the cause we all love so much! WIN WIN!
The Woman in the Pink Suit
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Submitted by Dana Huttlin, FG Pitt, Featured Blogger
I recently went out to breakfast with a woman who served as my mentor when I went through confirmation at my church. Over the past seven years, we’ve kept in touch off and on, and I’ve have continually looked forward to our talks about anything and everything over breakfast at our town diner. Alright, so this is all fine and good, but why am I writing about this? Because my mentor, Mrs. H., has a knack for telling me stories that just don’t just make me feel good, but revive my hope in the world. So for this blog post, I figured I would share one of the stories she told me at our last breakfast.
Mrs. H., now in her late sixties, went on a pretty incredible European trip sometime in her early twenties. During her trip, she visited an old professor who was spending a year as a visiting professor at the University of Paris. Keep in mind, this was way before the days of instant communication, and letters were the key to meeting up with anyone. Mrs. H took a train into the city, fully expecting to meet the professor and his family at the station. But when she got in, at ten pm on a Saturday night, no one was there to claim her.
Build a Better Sandwich Sweepstakes
Submitted by Corin Blanchard, FeelGood World, Guest Blogger Sunday, August 1.
Sunday, August 1. Mere hours after departing FG’s Big Cheese Summer Training Camp. Southwest Flight #2047 from San Jose to Denver. Middle seat, exit row.
Swedish Summerun
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Submitted by Tricia "Big Dreamer" Selin, FG4L Co-Chair, Featured Blogger
Leah Grossman and I participated in the 16th annual Swedish Summerun this past weekend. This is an annual fun run/walk to raise money for the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research. Each year a woman who is battling ovarian cancer is picked as the honoree of the event. This year it was a woman named Leslie. Last year it was a woman named Lisa. The year before it was a woman named Mary Anne. The simple act of empowering an individual and honoring these women inspires incredible results. Each year the number of participants and money raised keeps rising. Lisa and Mary Anne lost their battles with ovarian cancer, but their friends and family are still fighting, if not even harder now, to find a cure for the next generation of women. This year’s the honoree Team Leslie, in combination with Team Lisa’s Angels and Team Mary Anne raised over $70,000 and inspired over 400 people to participate in their honor. This is only part of the whole, there were another 30 survivors and in total over 3600 people participating in the event, raising over $426,000 for ovarian cancer research this year.
