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11 days ago 14 ladies and I joined together and took a walk that led us on an extraordinary adventure through a forest of 55k trees. To work on #ProjectCaiTREEna
We never imagined the journey it would take us on. I swore when this experience ended I would thread my chronicles and I’ll do my best to try.
Lessons in the Leaves: Things I Learned in the Trees
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We are really good with schedules and spreadsheets.
We learned what getting Balfed is-
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Then people started to notice our project which quickly turned into an initiative.
Caitríona noticed after 4 days of us collecting certificates and manually tallying donations.
From there our project grew and we had to open a fundraising site because well we aren’t gonna be Blakenship.
Along the way, we started hearing uplifting stories and things that genuinely touched us. Yes- I ugly cried because some things shared with us were just so genuinely heartfelt. I think we all cried on more than one occasion together. We were slowly realizing the impact of this.
We shared our own stories with each other about how the weekend of Caitríona’s birthday had so many sad meanings before this for a lot us and how working on this project was healing for us all.
We celebrated mile stones! It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before- me just an acorn in an entire Balforest.
We celebrated on zoom together as everyone was celebrating with us on Twitter watching the numbers climb.
There will be celebratory tattoos and jewelry to commemorate this amazing experience. We truly bonded walking in Balforest together along our journey.
All of this to say that we simply just wanted to give back to someone who gives so much of herself and who is inspiring to so many. We just wanted to see her smile by giving back in a way that benefited and included everyone. Her smile is everything—
To the 14 ladies who I am honored to call my friends, you ladies are the kindest, strongest, most inspiring group of women I am so humbled to be included among. Thank you from the depths of my being I https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Violettes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Violettes Herz"> u 109%. This has been such a beautiful journey. Thank you for the adventure.
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Ladies please add what I forgot to this thread because I am forgetful-
Ladies please add what I forgot to this thread because I am forgetful-
