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Kindness Day 2015

Monday, July 27 is International Kindness Project Day.

  

                              THE SANSONE FAMILY SHARING KINDNESS DAY

As I have the last 4 years, I  will be placing 100 roses for the Children Gone Too Soon at the Angel of Hope in Scottsdale as my annual Kindness Day Memorial for the MISS Foundation..Join Me if You Like !   In Memory of Dawn Marie Sansone and All the Children Gone Too Soon

The Kindness Project

Live your life as a memorial to your beloved dead.

- Joanne Cacciatore

Tomorrow is International Kindness Project Day, a day when grievers around the world from the U.S. to England to Paraguay to Botswana to Canada to New Zealand will come together to bring their loved one's presence back into the world so that they are remembered.

I never imagined, when I started the Kindness Project in the summer of 1997, that millions of kindness projects would be committed around the globe.

This project was born in my heart on Christmas eve of 1994. I knew I couldn't spend the money that was rightfully Cheyenne's on my other children. So I took that money and bought toys for underprivileged children, and I delivered them alone the day before Christmas. I dropped them off, wanting as much anonymity as possible, got back in my car hurriedly, and wept for nearly an hour.

It was bittersweet, though much more bitter than sweet at this point.

Some months later, I was in a shoe store buying back-to-school shoes for my children. I overheard a family debating which ones of their many children needed shoes more than the others. They all needed them, commented the parents, but they couldn't afford them. I found the store manager, bought a gift card with enough funds on it to pay for all the children's shoes, wrote on a little piece of paper "in memory of Chey", and I quickly left before he gave them the surprise.

It was only 18 months later that the MISS Foundation was born. I didn't name the MISS Foundation - or any of our programs- after Cheyenne. I chose, specifically, not to do that.

Similarly, I valued helping others anonymously, knowing in my heart that Chey's death had left me with a greater sense of compassion and agape for others, but not wanting to be recognized for it. Truly, it was not about some act of nobility. It was pure love for my child, a strong desire to make meaning, and newfound- profound- compassion for others. I wanted to be her hands and feet in the world. I wanted others to know that this little child lived, this little child died, and this little child continued to matter.

And so my anonymous giving grew. And as it did, the paralyzing grief was balanced by something more numinous, more reflexive, and I felt something in the core of my being- something inexplicable- moving me.

At some point, I realized these acts- both the little and the big- were helping me to cope.

And, I thought perhaps it could help others who were bereaved. Because simply, we cannot serve others without serving ourselves. We cannot give to another without giving to ourselves. We cannot bring comfort to another without bringing comfort to ourselves.

The Kindness Project was born about a year after the inception of the MISS Foundation. Born of pain. Born of compassion. Born of a love bigger than death.

And today, now 21 years later, it is much more sweet than bitter.

I invite you all to join us. For them. For each of us. For the entire world.

Please visit http://www.missfoundation.org/support/kindness to print your FREE cards in English and Spanish and join us in this project tomorrow and every day.

You can also "Like" our Kindness Project page to get updates on the amazing stories we receive from around the world!

Imagine this:

All around the world,

on this one day of the year,

mourners will be transforming their grief into a

powerful message of love, hope, peace, and kindness!

Kindness Day

The Kindness Project

Sharing and Support

The MISS Foundation's Dr. Cacciatore started the Kindness Project in 1996 as a way for families to cope with the tragedy of a child's death. Since then, more than 1,000,000 kindnesses have been committed around the globe in memory of children, gone too soon.

Anyone can participate in memory of anyone!

Here's what you do:

Visit the MISS Foundation's International Kindness Project Day website:

www.KindnessProjectDay.org



Start thinking about acts of kindness - especially anonymous ones as those are the most powerful - you can commit in your neighborhood and community!

After you get your free templates (available between July 20th and 27th), print your Kindness Project cards in English or Spanish.

Share this event with others! IDEAS FOR THIS: Send email invitation to the Facebook event; print out our Kindness Project Brochure and share them around your town; do your own Kindness Project and send press releases to your local tv, radio, newspapers to spread the word.

Then- drum roll please- on July 27, 2011, go out into this world and help to created more Kindness in memory of your beloved!

Help spread the word by sharing our International Kindness
Project Day press release with your local media!

We hope everyone will join us in this amazing experience! Don't worry- you can commit a Kindness Project act that costs nothing (mow someone's yard, offer a homemade gift, bring cookies to a nursing home), only your time and devotion to another!

Or, you can have fun buying Starbucks for the person in line behind you... or you can leave flowers on a strangers' door... or you can buy someone's meal at a restaurant anonymously, or you can leave a $10 bill on the ground where someone can find it wrapped around a Kindness Project card... the list is endless! See our Kindess Project Ideas page for even more!

Imagine this:
All around the world,
on this one day of the year,
mourners will be transforming their grief into a
powerful message of love, hope, peace, and kindness!

Kindness Day 7/27/2015

As I have the last 4 years and will be placing 100 roses for the Children Gone Too Soon at the Angel of Hope in Scottsdale...Join Me if You Like !

Monday, July 27 is International Kindness Project Day. Please "Like" this https://www.facebook.com/MISSFoundationKindnessProject
and SHARE this on your page so others know!
Ask them to print a few cards and go out into the world in memory of your child. Families from Romania, Iceland, Paraguay, and Italy to Australia, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, and Kenya will be joining us in memory of all our beloved children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters, godchildren, classmates, and friends!

July Sad Dads Support Group

My Facebook Friends !!

Hello My Friends...I ask you to PLEASE Like this page on Facebook Boycott Joel Osteen..His view on Parents who have lost a child is ridiculous.....Basically he is a Moron ...saying Parents who have lost a child "need to get over it and stop seeking attention.......He is a 56 million dollar a year Fool PLEASE LIKE THIS PAGE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Joel-Osteen-on-Child-Loss/862675497152160?fref=ts

My dear friend and mentor in traumatic bereavement, Dr. Joanne Kyouji Cacciatore brought to all of our attention that Pastor Joel Osteen has a chapter in his book wherein he is quoted as saying that bereaved parents who lost their only child were still grieving out of "self pity" and because they "like attention". Needless to say, his belief that we bereaved parents are wallowing in our self pity doesn't sit well with many of us. Joanne contacted Joel Osteen and asked him to apologize to all of us, offering to help counsel him in the bereavement that one experiences after the loss of a child (or children). The door was shut in her face, clearly, so she wrote him an open letter. I love her. Please read, and if compelled, share her letter 

http://drjoanne.blogspot.com/2015/06/be-like-little-children-open-letter-to.html

Sad Dads Club Anniversary

1 year ago this week Barry Kluger invited a group of Dads to a monthly hang at Morton’s in Scottsdale, That night we were interviewed by a reporter named Kevin Kennedy from channel 12, The piece was about Dads who lost a child and also awareness to the Farley-Kluger Bill.
The Reporter dubbed us the Sad Dads Club during interview,

 A couple weeks later we formed the Sad Dad’s Club Social Group and 3 months later Myself AND Theo Soumalis were granted a Dads only group with MISS Foundation. We are now in our 9th month of Support groups for the Dad’s

We have been honored to share children’s stories with many Dads over the last 9 months, and Theo and I would like to say thank you for sharing them with us and others

I wish to thank all those who helped us to this point and to the Dad’s that have joined us here or in support group. Without the help from many, this may have not been a much sought out group for those Dads who share this incredible loss.

On This Father’s Day The Sad Dads wish you a gentle day
Please join us Thursday June 25th ..@6:30pm  MISS Foundation Offices

TV INTERVIEW BELOW FROM 6/2014

June "Sad Dads Club" Support Group

Sadness

Our prayers to the Biden Family...........So tragic. A father's grief will once again be on public display. For those who don't know, this is VP Bidens second child to die before him. In 1972, Beau's mother and sister (1 year old at the time) died in a car accident





http://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8693325/joe-biden-beau

Sad Dads Club Support Group For May 2015

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DAD'S Join us this Thursday for April Support Group

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Happy St Josephs Day

Happy St Josephs Day To My Fellow Paison's St. Joseph’s Day 2015: 10 Facts, History And Traditions For San Giuseppe Whether it’s called St. Joseph’s Day, The Feast of St. Joseph or La Festa di San Giuseppe, the March 19 holiday is dedicated to the husband of the Virgin Mary. To celebrate the feast, which is usually held two days after St. Patrick’s Day, check out some facts gathered from Fisheaters.com and The Times-Picayune. 1. St. Joseph’s Day is widely celebrated by Catholics in the Italian community. 2. St. Joseph is the patron saint of Sicily. 3. The altar, also known as “St. Joseph’s Table” or “la tavola di San Giuseppe,” is an important part of the ceremony. People decorate it with flowers, candles, wine and some “lucky” foods. 4. Fava beans are supposedly “lucky” since they survived during a draught in Italy during the Middle Ages when nothing else did. St. Joseph, through God, saved worshipers from the draught, some believe. 5. Lemons are also thought to be good luck on this day. A side fact: If a woman looking to get married steals a lemon from the altar, it will help her find a husband. 6. Breadcrumbs are usually incorporated into dishes. They represent sawdust, which commemorates Joseph’s job as a carpenter. They could also represent the dry earth during the draught. 7. Meat is usually left off the altar since St. Joseph’s Day takes place during lent. Instead, believers feast on fish and other seafood. 8. St Joseph’s Day is arguably best known for its pastries, with sfinge (cream puffs) and zeppole (doughnuts) being the most popular. 9. While Irish Americans wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s tradition to wear red on St. Joseph’s Day. 10. St. Joseph’s Day is largely celebrated in New Orleans, which was a popular port among Sicilian immigrants in the 19th century. The French Quarter has even garnered the nickname “Little Palermo.”

Welcome Mugz

Please Welcome "MUGZ" ...... Today we brought home a new Family Member, Weighing in at about 4lbs @11 weeks.....Mugz is a Male Maltese /Chihuahua ..The House was just to empty.................

Thank You

Grateful & Thank You

Maggie and I would like to thank the many of you who stopped over or called with regrets over us losing our Dog Tuxedo, He loved all those that stopped to play with him or rub his belly. The

 Response from Residents and Neighbors has been wonderful..

A Special Thank You to Neighbors Colin and Lisa who left this beautiful flower arrangement and and card of support for Maggie, This young couple who became our neighbors a couple years ago were always asking to babysit him or bringing A Steak when they barbecued  ...

This is why this is such a great community..It was evident in the amount of messages from you wonderful neighbors Thank you so very much  Mike & Maggie Sansone