"Got Towels Hon?"
Our community organization was asked by a nice person, Deborah Ward at the Baltimore County Department of Social Services, to collect big towels for those in need. Not wash cloths, not hand towels but.....big towels so people who have none can dry off after a shower.
Soooooo, when our community pool opened at the beginning of the summer, the president of our community association sent out a broadcast email. This year everyone was to know that the lost and found would be purged every two weeks - there simply is not enough room to store all the items left at the pool.
Wow! Bing! went off in my brain and I wondered if that meant the towels too. When I called to inquire, sure enough the towels would be tossed. I gathered up my peeps - my community conscious daughter Emily Rae and my good friend Martha Haile and also good neighbor and friend Ann Hayes. Together we would collect the stinky/yukky/wet towels, wash them, fold them up and at the end of the summer present them to BCDSS.
We ended up with at least 350 of the most amazing towels you can imagine. So many colors and some so thick and soft - yum. Dolphins towels and shark towels and pirate towels and beautiful sunsets and LL Bean with "Ron" so beautifully engraved, and Carey's princess towel. I have to admit I did feel a little guilty about Ron and Carey missing their towels but........not tooooooo guilty.
The important thing to note - when you're doing some community work, look for a natural flow of items (i.e., collect shoes at a 5K race, collect towels from the pool, collect toiletries that people might bring home from vacation and never use, collect half used boxes of diapers that the baby outgrows). That way, no one has to spend any money and things are not wasted.
Thank you everyone and hope you're having a good start to Fall. What a great time to be alive.
Adios, Namaste and Je t'aime!
Donna Rae Smith
(questions, suggestions or comments please email me at donnaraesmith@yahoo.com)
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