Today marks the second year of Tweetsgiving, an awesome initiative by the folks at Epic Change. Last year, Tweetsgiving raised money to build a classroom in Tanzania. This year, there’s even more happening to benefit that school in Tanzania. Read the Tweetsgiving story here, and check out this amazing video that talks about what this is all for.
Radian6 is proudly part of Tweetsgiving this year, and my friend and colleague Danny Brown asked me to be part of it personally as well (and I wouldn’t dream of saying no).
What I’m Thankful For
I was born with the gift of gab, so it would be easy for me to blather on here for miles about all the things – material, personal, esoteric, philosophical – that I’m grateful for. But instead, I’d like to say something rather simple.
I am deeply and eternally grateful for the power of the human spirit, and the freedom and opportunity I have to tap into it at every turn, online and off.
It’s given to me by friends and family through their encouragement, support, and love. It’s shown to me through the good works of people I know that are changing the world in big and small ways. I see it in my daughter as she learns and absorbs the world around her and blossoms into this amazing little person. It’s demonstrated by friends who overcome and persevere despite the obstacles thrown in their way every day. It’s so very evident among the noise on the crazy interwebs when truly amazing people, causes, and companies find one another and forge affinities, partnerships, friendships, collaborations. It’s given me a professional hook upon which to hang my hat, for good, because for once I believe in the very foundation of what I’m out there to accomplish (and one that goes far, far beyond the mechanisms).
I am so thankful that this year has shown me some of the deepest capacities of humans to be, well, human. To be great. To be humble and giving and kind and compassionate. To be generous and smart. To be funny, encouraging, happy, witty, wise.
What I’ve seen this year, what I’ve experienced across the spectrum from beautiful to ugly, has given me so much inspiration to be as deeply good a person as I know how to be. The bar has been set high, and I’m humbled by what I learn and see every day.
So thank you, to each of you who taps and shares your human spirit for the good of the people around you. It truly can move mountains.
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I’m grateful to have someone as kind, intelligent and wonderful as you in my life and to be able to call you a good friend is an honor.
Give yourself some credit for your circumstances too, girl! You brought all this into your life.
I’m grateful to have someone as kind, intelligent and wonderful as you in my life and to be able to call you a good friend is an honor.
Give yourself some credit for your circumstances too, girl! You brought all this into your life.
STOP BEING SO AWESOME!
Ok, maybe don’t.
Thank you, Amber. 🙂 More to come on that later.
STOP BEING SO AWESOME!
Ok, maybe don’t.
Thank you, Amber. 🙂 More to come on that later.
Beautifully said. How’s that for simple and keeping it direct, huh?
Beautifully said. How’s that for simple and keeping it direct, huh?
Thank YOU for inspiring us to allow those qualities to come through.
Thank YOU for inspiring us to allow those qualities to come through.
I was so profoundly moved by this! Thank you so much for sharing your talent, wisdom, and insight & encouraging us all to dig a little deeper & reach a little higher! Blessings to you & your family!
I was so profoundly moved by this! Thank you so much for sharing your talent, wisdom, and insight & encouraging us all to dig a little deeper & reach a little higher! Blessings to you & your family!
Amber many thanks for making us remember that these people also know what thanks giving is all about and as this programme is built on social media platform it makes much more easier for people to spread the word.
Plus these kids in the video are so enthusiastic about the world and there future I think its are duty to show gratitude, I usually go on a site named freerice.com which has an inbuilt quiz and pays 10 grains of rice for every right answer.
Amber many thanks for making us remember that these people also know what thanks giving is all about and as this programme is built on social media platform it makes much more easier for people to spread the word.
Plus these kids in the video are so enthusiastic about the world and there future I think its are duty to show gratitude, I usually go on a site named freerice.com which has an inbuilt quiz and pays 10 grains of rice for every right answer.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I come here because of you, Amber. Your exuberant spirit, playful nature and open kindness. They matter oh so very much more than the content.
That said, content that is well written, engaging and open to conversation is the core of what I find and look forward to here.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I come here because of you, Amber. Your exuberant spirit, playful nature and open kindness. They matter oh so very much more than the content.
That said, content that is well written, engaging and open to conversation is the core of what I find and look forward to here.