"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."
---Margaret Cho
Today I helped make gift baskets for an upcoming event/fundraiser of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Montgomery County. By the time I arrived, several volunteers were hard at work, putting together beautiful gift baskets with all kinds of items in them. Cellophane wrapping with bows tied on top covered most of the baskets.
I was struck by how professional the baskets looked, and quite frankly a bit nervous that I wasn't up to par when it came to making them, though I managed to do a few. I imagine the winners (many are being auctioned off) will be very happy to get them, as they are clearly put together with a lot of TLC and contain a lot of decorative and useful stuff.
Tonight I went to another fun community event which didn't involve volunteering but still had a nice giving component. It was a book swap hosted by a longtime friend at her beautiful home. Each woman who came brought some books that we put on a table, and as each person left she could take the books she chose. As a book lover, I couldn't help thinking the idea was brilliant. I browsed at the titles, took a biography of Ben Bradlee for my husband and a Jodi Picault novel for my daughter, and left with the notion that I definitely want to copy her idea sometime, maybe as another day's project or just for the fun of it.
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