Doi ng Good Feel s Great!
Cr awling up t he side of a st eep, cr umbling hill t o our Rio Seco, (Per u) gr oup of childr en, we encount er ed t his woman wear ing t hese shoes. When your feet hur t , your whole body aches aft er a shor t while. We could have walked on by because t his wasn' t our focus. Making it par t of our focus meant expending r esour ces, doing somet hing off t he schedule and moving a few pieces ar ound t he boar d t hat wasn' t planned. She got her new pair of shoes. And did her childr en. And her husband. Then we bought shoes for t he childr en all ar ound t he communit y. The feeling t hat we could br ing necessar y help t o t he communit y was indescr ibable. I was par t icular ly gr at eful t hat ot her s ar ound t he wor ld car ed enough t o make t he funds possible t o pr ovide t hese solut ions. Just a small st or y wit h a big mor al. We just didn' t change out shoes. We changed lives. Now many of t hem ar e r eaching out t o help ot her s, like t hey wer e helped. I nspir at ion came in t he for m of a hike up a cr umbling hill. You just never know wher e or when or how gr eat t hings can and will happen. You just have t o be open t o ever yt hing, ever yday in ever y way. We can all be her oes.
