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05/22/2020

Sending massive gratitude to essential workers worldwide.❤️

02/15/2019

This will warm your heart. Grateful for friendship!

Despite all odds these unusual animal friendships formed and they are absolutely adorable!

02/15/2019

Time to reboot.

02/15/2019

Love and gratitude never get old.

10/02/2016

09/11/2016

"Look for the helpers." On 9/11 and the days that followed, there were helpers everywhere. Firefighters, police, medical staff, military, passengers, co-workers, teachers, volunteers, average Janes and Joes, and people around the world who opened their doors, wallets, and hearts to those who needed help of any kind - from a temporary displacement to the loss of a loved one. Grateful for the helpers. ❤️

08/20/2016

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To the usher at the Cardinals game who spent two innings finding my son a bottle of milk:

When I asked you if you knew where I could find milk for my son, at Busch Stadium on a sweltering summer evening, I expected you to tell me I was out of luck, or at best offer a vague suggestion.

Instead, you took us several sections over into the Redbird Club even though our tickets didn’t grant us access, because you knew it housed a bakery – but they were out of milk. Instead of giving up, you took us three levels down to a store on the main concourse, where we once again struck out – which you know, because you stayed and helped us look. So you led us halfway around the stadium to a donut stand, where we at last found what we were looking for. While I paid for it you grabbed us the straw my son was asking for, along with some napkins for good measure. And then you went back with us, halfway around the stadium and up three levels and back through the Redbird Club and over several sections, to make sure we didn’t get lost on our way back, because we’d had to travel so very far to find that bottle of milk. It took two innings, but you made sure my son was happy.

You did all this not knowing why that milk was important to us. You may have thought my son was spoiled, or that I was a pushover unwilling to say no to her three year old. If you thought that, you didn’t show it. You were wonderful.

What you didn’t know is that beneath my son’s Yadi t-shirt there’s a central line and a feeding tube. You didn’t know that the unusual form and function of his little body mean that he dehydrates easily, but also that drinking too much water could ultimately land us in the hospital, and for whatever reason, against most logic, right now milk is the thing he tolerates best.

You didn’t know that for the better part of the last three years it’s been incredibly hard for us to go places on a whim, or that in recent months we’ve vowed not to let his medical needs stop us from doing things, and so taking up our friends on these last-minute Cardinals tickets was a small triumph for us. You didn’t know that we might be facing another big surgery soon that could keep us mostly quarantined to our own house for weeks or months; or that I’d forgotten to grab his milk because I’d received an unexpected and lengthy phone call from his doctor as we were packing up our ballgame bag and had been distracted by talking through the laundry list of changes she wanted us to make in a last-ditch effort to avoid that surgery.

You didn’t know those things. You just saw a boy who wanted some milk, and you were kind to him. And I can’t thank you enough.

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Credit: This Gutsy Life

08/19/2016

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08/05/2016

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Liz Willock met driver Ellis Hill during an hour-long Uber ride. But their time together would have a lasting impact on Hill's life.

While chatting, Hill noted that his son, Darrell Hill, made it to the Olympics for Team USA for shot put and would be competing in Rio.

"When I told her about my son she was really amazed, but when she asked me if I was going over there to watch him, I said I really couldn't afford it."

For Willock, this was heartbreaking.

"It was devastating to hear that. Here's this wonderful man who has a close relationship with his son and I know any parent would want to see their son or daughter compete at the Olympics, but it was very understandable how that could be out of reach."

Willock began hatching an idea. She happens to be a sales professional with the exact relationships and resources necessary to arrange Hill's trip.

"She asked me, 'If I could get you a ticket would you go?' " Hill said.. "And I said, 'Oh my goodness I don't even know you!'"

"She said, 'No. I believe you and I were fated to meet and I'm going to try to make this happen,' " Hill noted.

The next day, Willock started a GoFundMe page with a $7,500 goal to send Hill to Rio. In just 2 days, the goal was met. He would watch his son compete.

"I was ecstatic. I feel really grateful and overcome by the knowledge that there are good people out there." Hill said.

"There has been so much sadness and violence in the news lately and this really restored my faith in humanity. We had over 150 people contribute and I think Ellis knew maybe 10 of them. The rest were strangers." Willock said.

"I haven't seen my son in a couple months because he's been training, I can't wait to see him and encourage him in person and let him know I'm 100 percent in his corner." Hill said.

Of chance encounters with strangers, Hill notes, "Liz was only a stranger for 5 minutes. We talk all the time now and I know we're going to be friends for a long time."



Photo Credit: GoFundMe

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07/24/2016

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