I'm breaking out of my usual Big Things Thursdays format, as this week's feature is you, it's me, it's our community.
INTENTION: Give to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
FULFILLMENT: For the month of February, I donated 100% of the funds from my Spanish sing alongs at Lark Cafe towards the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Thanks to Lark Cafe, they too donated 100% of their cut from my Spanish sing alongs. And this is where the fun began...
I also do a private weekly sing along, and the attending families spontaneously participated in this fundraising effort and handed me an envelope filled with money.
For the 3 sing-alongs I had scheduled for this event, families came and families gave.
And then the owners of Lark personally gave more. And then one of the couple's employers gave more.
In the end, the giving totaled $559.
It made me so happy to see our community come together to be part of what started out as a simple intention. Intentions have a way of bringing communities together to do big things for others.
Community has been on my mind a lot lately, so I put together a playlist of music that's about You, Me, Our Community. I'll be Guest DJ on the Hilltown Family Variety Show this Saturday! Tune in this Saturday March 18, from 9-10am on 103.3FM WXOJ, Northampton, MA. An encore will broadcast on Sunday, (date) from 7-8am. Listen live via streaming audio at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org, or anytime to the podcast at www.HilltownFamilies.org immediately following Sunday’s broadcast!
I'll have music from Lloyd H. Miller's band, The Deedle Deedle Dees, Moona Luna, Louis Prima, and many, many more. Tune in. And lets never forget the beauty of community.
INTENTION: Give to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
FULFILLMENT: For the month of February, I donated 100% of the funds from my Spanish sing alongs at Lark Cafe towards the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Thanks to Lark Cafe, they too donated 100% of their cut from my Spanish sing alongs. And this is where the fun began...
I also do a private weekly sing along, and the attending families spontaneously participated in this fundraising effort and handed me an envelope filled with money.
For the 3 sing-alongs I had scheduled for this event, families came and families gave.
And then the owners of Lark personally gave more. And then one of the couple's employers gave more.
In the end, the giving totaled $559.
It made me so happy to see our community come together to be part of what started out as a simple intention. Intentions have a way of bringing communities together to do big things for others.
Community has been on my mind a lot lately, so I put together a playlist of music that's about You, Me, Our Community. I'll be Guest DJ on the Hilltown Family Variety Show this Saturday! Tune in this Saturday March 18, from 9-10am on 103.3FM WXOJ, Northampton, MA. An encore will broadcast on Sunday, (date) from 7-8am. Listen live via streaming audio at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org, or anytime to the podcast at www.HilltownFamilies.org immediately following Sunday’s broadcast!
I'll have music from Lloyd H. Miller's band, The Deedle Deedle Dees, Moona Luna, Louis Prima, and many, many more. Tune in. And lets never forget the beauty of community.
Leap, and the net will appear. –John Burroughs