Say what you need to say...
For decades I started on Thanksgiving weekend. I pulled out the address book(s) and all of the remnants from last year, my labels and stamps, stacks of cards and pens. I typically sent 250 cards in the mail.
That was a LOT of writing.
I'm frugal.
Anyone who knows me well, understands my need for taking up as much space on the card as humanly possible, getting my 47 cents stamp's worth in one go!
I cut off the front of the cards and sent those as postcards to my family, and inserted them into gifts for friends. Scads of cards went out each day from the Monday after Thanksgiving until the pile diminished altogether.
This year, however, I sent about five Holiday cards. Yes, 5!
My focus and attention is on the Period Pack Project.
I watched "How Do Homeless Women Cope With Their Periods" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABch4VYOJZ0)
It set off the "I-Gotta-Do-Something" Knob.
Imagine 50,000 women, in various stages of hormonal challenges, living on the streets.
Taelor and I decided this year, despite the last 23 being Servers at a local church (wherever we were living at the time,) we're going to do something else. Something even more meaningful.
I call it the Period Pack Project.
I began collecting pads, tampons, pain relievers, baby wipes, soap, ziplocks, chocolate bars, and handwritten messages in Christmas cards, to include in gift bags. Socks, hats, cotton bras, gloves, scarves, anything to help them keep warm, gets jammed into the bags as well. A book, or even random photos find their way inside the bags, to spark their interest and inquiry.
We plan on going out, for every day she's here, and finding women on the streets, who might want at least one month's worth of PERIOD goods. If we can make a difference in this small way, we will. If we run across a man, we'll toss in a chocolate bar and Christmas card, for incentive to pass along to his lady friend!
It just makes us HAPPY!
I may very well keep this Period Pack Project going, until I figure out an even BIGGER way of contributing.
Wanna help?
PM, call, text, email, send me a telepathic message.
Thanks!
And SHARE, if you CARE!!
happy holidays (and all that!)
Paula and Taelor