A jewel is just a pebble that is worth something to someone

It has not been a stellar week.

Here I sit at a bus stop in the the middle of a bad rain storm in the middle of a very long week.

Personally I have spent too much time looking for a package, waiting and worrying for calls and emails on a variety of things and everything else plus work and other life stuff.

Then I am reminded of  a phrase from an old college science professor.

“A jewel is just a pebble that is worth something to someone”

I am reminded of the small things that do the most good are how you see them. Sure, there is bad everywhere and anywhere, but there is good at the same places.

The raindrops aren’t tears from heaven, they are water leaking from cloud, right?

I am losing it – I am wet, scared, tired, unsuccessful and beyond frustrated.

The wind is making the rain dance on the puddles in a rhythm pattern. And I am so wet that I don’t think anybody can tell the difference between the rain and my tears. I am a large very wet to the bone sobbing mess and I am thinking about rocks.

A truck hits the puddles. I didn’t think I could get more wet, but I did.

There is nowhere to escape the rain, the wet, the heat or the fact that I am officially spent emotionally and it is only Wednesday.

I see the next truck coming, I know the puddles are deep. I know that I don’t have the package that I have spent all of this week looking for. I know I am waiting and worrying on many areas of life stuff. I know that it is still raining. I know the puddle is coming to me.

And it did. I wasn’t any wetter this time.

Just mad that I couldn’t do anything to change the situation – the moment of time that I was in.

Still no bus, still raining, still wet.

I decided to pick up the trash so it doesn’t go into the storm drain.

Cans, wrappers and plastic bottles and a pretty cool rock…..

I think I will keep it….

And I am walking home, can’t get any wetter and I can’t make the package appear, the emails and calls happen or the world to stop being crazy but I pick up the trash here and I can enjoy a walk in the rain in a new rock in my pocket.

 

Note: This was written yesterday, but because of storms and the internet being funky – it was finally posted today.

 

 

 

 

 

A Few Good Things Remain

Think about it…

You are part of Moving Difference, it is something that is bigger than yourself.

You are a drop of water of a huge wave of giving forward to our communities.

You are taking one hour a week and you are making a difference while another person is doing the same thing in a different part of the world or maybe across the street.

It is all about the “you” in this world.

It is pretty amazing when you stop and think about it.

The last few weeks of the Moving Difference project, I am thrilled and saddened.

Moving Difference has set out and accomplished what it was to do and then some. It has been a long hot summer and it is marked with wonderful amazing people doing awesome things in their communities hour by hour of giving their time. That is the thrilling part.

The sad part is that it is coming to an end. The great summer of Moving Difference is fading into a memory or a distant thought. And in some ways that is good too. When we all watch that sunset on September 21, 2012 marking the end of Moving Difference and the end of summer, we will also all be marking ourselves as achievements of people that cared and actually stepped forward to be a difference, humans that made a decision to give their time to things that moved their hearts and minds.

As we head together to the final summer sunset and the closing scenes of Moving Difference for this year, I asked that you email us your Moving Difference hours as soon as possible so we can get the count in and going before the official end on September 21.

      I am still very proud of each of you, still working as hard as we did in the beginning when this project started, and still in amazement everyday about how big Moving Difference is and how wonderful people are.

   You being you is the thing that reminds me everyday that despite the crazy world that we all live in, a few good things remain.

Peace,

Jeny

In the moment –

By all counts, Moving Difference is a working success. It is less than a week old, it is steady and strong and making the impact on the world.

            I have read a lot of emails over the last week, thousands actually. Every one excited to share, wanting to do something, or reporting what they have done. Each email is special and unique. From the guy that wrote to proudly report that he didn’t pass out when giving blood to the young woman in the different country asking if it was okay to do a Moving Difference inTurkeywith her friends. Amazing emails, simple and beautiful.

            To those of you still getting out there to do the Moving Difference or having a hard time selecting what to do, I firmly believe that you already know it in your heart.

Like Moving Difference for me, I really never thought “Hey I am going to put together Moving Difference and change the world.” What I thought was “Hey I am going to put together Moving Difference and do something besides complain about yet another hot ugly summer.”

Being a bit selfish in my thinking now looking back but I never thought it on such a huge scale that Moving Difference has grow to.

            Honestly I am glad that I didn’t think of it to the huge scale, because I probably won’t have done it. Hey! I am human – I would have worried, fretted and stall like everybody else.

            Now that Moving Difference is going and going to large numbers and going completely beyond what my little first thought was, well, it is a moment of awe.

            Sometimes you don’t get to choose the moment that takes your breath away, it chooses you.

Tomorrow starts it!

Hey Everybody, I know what you are thinking – tomorrow is June 20 and you just can’t wait to start Moving Difference.

Okay – maybe that is how I feel and I am thinking it is going to be great…

This is going to be a short blog – because tomorrow is going to rock n’ roll

and I still have a lot of emails to reply back to tonight. Because I want everybody to have the information they need to start the summer right!!

So as the day ends – please politely bid ado to spring –

and tomorrow bounce out of bed saying – LOOK OUT WORLD – I’M ON A MISSION TO MAKE A MOVING DIFFERENCE!!

See you on the first day of summer!!