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Sometimes, when you are just dinking around, going through life, minding your own business, you run across someone that just blows you away. I dink a lot… so perhaps I have more opportunities (although, I am not that good at minding my own business… so… hmmm). In any event, this seems to happen to me more often than some others.

But I digress…

A friend of mine, from online, has had such an effect upon me. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you have already been introduced, she wrote the blog about Pay It Forward that I wrote about in March.

She hit it out of the park again today with her post about Freecycle in which she talks about a 1 year old baby on dialysis and what she was able to accomplish for this child through freecycle.org.

It is a moving story, but it does not start (or end) there. She is constantly doing things to make other people happy. Her online feeds are consistently full of funny and uplifting banter, and when I say full… I mean FULL. It is constant, and, refreshing.

Yesterday, my friend had to deal with a very painful and personal experience. Through her pain and anguish, she continued to entertain by providing post after post of funny light-hearted material. The idea of making other people happy, smile and laugh permeating through her own crisis. Less than 24 hours later, she produced the post I referenced above.

Go read that post now, and appreciate someone who I have come to admire. I have been told that you never really know a person until you have seen them facing adversity. It is what they do in those times that marks the true measure of the quality of their character. In that case, I believe the bar has been set quite high in this case, and I’m proud to say I know the person who placed it there.

Thanks Twila, for your inspiration