Thursday December 11, 2008 Doing good on a dreaded birthday...
This year, back on the 26th of November, I turned the big 4-0. I'd been dreading this birthday for a very long time. I mean, c'mon, I can't be 40. Seems like only yesterday I turned 21...sigh!Oh well, since I could do nothing to stop the march of time, I decided to make lemons into lemonade so to speak. Ever since my trip back from Namibia where I worked with the Cheetah Conservation Fund, I've tried to get folks to think of giving to charities instead of gifting. I asked for charitable donations for last year's birthday and I was able to get my immediate family to donate to the Lupus Foundation last year for Christmas instead of buying gifts for everyone.
So I did the same for this year's birthday. I made it very clear on the evite to my party "NO GIFTS" and instead, if you feel like you need to do something, I would prefer donations be made to the Cheetah Consrvation Fund, the American Cancer Society and Rocketship Education.
Because of the economy, I wasn't expecting a huge amount of donations but my friends all came through and pleasantly surprised me in that I was able to raise about $200 for each of the charities. WOW!! As I finished counting up the donations, I was feeling really good....figure if you have to get older and hit those milestone birthdays, you might as well do it for good. Wouldn't you agree?
( Dec 11 2008, 12:33:42 PM PST ) Permalink
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