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Tuesday TOAST

My dear blogfriend, Curious Hamster, over in Scotland and I once wanted to write about random acts of kindness... Well, we are going to try again.

For my very first Tuesday Tokens of Altruistic Subjective Thoughtfulness I will relate a story.

The valley in which I live was "fortunate" enough to have a marathon this weekend. Now people do marathons for many reasons... but I found one reason compelling enough to warrant being my first Tuesday ....OK how about TTOAST for short...
The particular gentleman I chose decided to run for a friend of his that had passed away in a strange and sad camping accident. It seems that the person he was running for had been sleeping in a tent with three other people when a tree fell over and killed him. The other folks were fine, the tree just killed this one person. What a devastating event and how nice that he decided to run and honor him... I believe I heard that they were raising money for the family too. But a marathon, that is a long distance and while not what I would choose to do, I think it is very nice for this person to have done so.
So, my first TTOAST goes to this man, whose name I know but have never met.

Here is Curious Hamsters post.

What token of thoughtfulness have you observed recently?

UPDATE: I too think it may have cliche part to it. But I realized that when I notice people in acts of kindness that I feel better, happier even even if it has nothing to do with me. So, I hope to be able to post noticed kindnesses however small because we all, after all, are in this together. Take the time to see what nice things your children, friends strangers do and celebrate that we are not all grumpy inside, there is something that can recognice nice gestures.
TAGS: TTOAST

ADDENDUM

My dear mother in law just reminded me that I completely forgot to put in one ofmy favorite things... probably becasue I haven't had it in a while (Papa wo bist du?
so in the name of haste I am changing favorite foods to now read.
Four Favorite Foods:

1. Papa's Kartoffel- und Gurkensalat (which is my way of trying to impress everyone into thinking it is some awesome exotic dish or that I actually speak German (ha), but if you read German you would know it is just plain old potato salad and cucumber salad... however, I promise that there is nothing plain about papas' cooking. They will be here very soon, so I will have to put a weapon to papas head and make him cook the papa papa salad* for me)
2. Tortilla de patata
3. Weinerschnitzel
4. Medium rare steak
5. llapingachos or Fritada or just about any of these
(all links removed cause I am just to lazy this mornign to do it)


* papa papa salad is papa for father as in my father in law, papa for potato in Spanish... and salad is for salad..

Oh, mama danke for the reminder!

Tags:potato, food

Cuatros

= Fours

I've hove not seen this anywhere and got tagged by Jordana. Which is always exciting, cause it makes you feel blog loved.

Four Jobs I've Had:

1. Programs Manager
2. Health Educator II
3. Assistant instructor for Child Development (DENVER Lab) section and Community Health (medical school)
4. Health Educator I

(aside from my most important job of Mom!!!!)


Four Movies I Watch Over and Over Again:
( similar to Jordana [OK, only two, but I found it interesting], and in no particular order)

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. Auntie Mame
3. The Princess Bride
4. Animal House or Raiders of the Lost Ark (it is a tie)


Four Places I've Lived:

1. Colombia
2. Spain
3. Ecuador
4. Arizona


Four T.V. Shows I Watch:
(this is so embarrassing)

1. One Tree Hill
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. 70's Show
4. CBS news Sunday Morning (best good news show ever) <---- Not embarrassing!


Four Places I've Been on Vacation:
(all before Squink joined our happy household)

1. San Francisco, CA
2. Cancun, Mexico
3. Nogales, Mexico
4. McAllen, TX and Reynosa, MX (border towns) to watch my dad bullfight


Four Websites I Visit Daily:

1. My blog roll - all of it, several times
2. My personalized Google homepage
3. My webmail account
4. My sudoku sites

Four Favorite Foods:

1. Tortilla de patata
2. Weinerschnitzel
3. Medium rare steak
4. llapingachos or Fritada or just about any of these

Four Places I'd Like to Be Right Now:

1. In bed reading
2. Ecuador
3. Hungary
4. Somewhere new that I haven't been to before

Four Bloggers I'm Tagging:

1. Catherine
2. Nettie
3. Patricia
4. You, over there, yeah, I am talking to you... (because no one else reads my blog on a semi regular basis other than my mom or my MIL and I don't think they would especially... my MIL because she doesn't have a blog).

He loves his sweater Oma und Opa

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