Imagine if all of us committed to 20 mitvahs/acts of kindness to honor each child lost in Newtown.
I'm in. If you are RT #20Acts.
From that single tweet grew a commitment from countless Americans to commit not just 20 but 26 random acts of kindness. After a few days of immeasurable grief and an overwhelming feeling of helplessness, I decided to join the phenomenon, and responded to Ann with this tweet:
I'm in; to help heal my broken heart. First act will be for Emilie, because I have a 6 year old named
Emily too. #26Acts.
And so began our family effort to think of thoughtful and creative ways to honor those that died in Newtown on December 14, 2012. A year has passed since that horrible day, and I hope that the little things that our family has done since then have changed lives, in big or small ways. Among the things we did this year: gave blood for the first time; made snowflakes for the children of Sandy Hook school (the girls did this); made sandwiches for our local soup kitchen; donated frequent flyer miles to the Make a Wish Foundation; gave a 100% tip to a waitress at our favorite restaurant; paid for the coffee of the person behind us in the drive-thru; and many, many other small and simple random acts of kindness.
What did we learn along the way? That doing something nice for someone - even a perfect stranger - feels good. Really good. The type of good that can help to ease the pain of hearts that broke into 26 pieces one year ago today.
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