Beautiful Summer Morning SunShine Profiles

A beautiful summer morning to you!

I have a of story I want to highlight as Sunshine Profiles. This is part of something I am working on called, “One Billion Acts of Kindness Every Day”. I will bring you these stories when ever they strike me as exemplifying the attributes of Beautiful Summer Morning.

The Afghanistan Kite Project:

As you know I love to weave. I weave threads of happenstance into full color tapestries.

Currently, I am reading “The Kite Runner, ” by Khaled Hosseini. If you have not purchased this book, then follow the link at the end of this article and order it now. Part of the stoy talks about a kite fighting festival that Afghan’s enjoyed before their country descended into years of bloodshed and destruction. The festival was the highlight of the winter season. Everyone went to the festival, and people would talk about it for weeks after.

So thread one, the Book, “The Kite Runner”. Thread two a newspaper article I read because, get this, I had forgotten to take my book (The Kite Runner) in my car with me and consequently had nothing to read as I sipped my morning starbucks. Since I am a fanatical reader, I had to have something to read and the only thing available that morning was a day old copy of a newspaper. Hence I came across this story by Amanda Farrell of Canwest News Service.

The story has the element of beautiful sadness. A Canadian Soldier , Lieut. Bill Turner stationed in Afghanistan, had started a kite project to get kites and soccer balls to give to children in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, before the project got of the ground, Lieut. Bill Turner was killed in action.

But the story did not end there. Two men, Bernard Tritz and Reg Nordby, where moved to action when they heard about the kite crusade.

“It just struck me–the symbolism of the freedom of kites an what [Turner] was trying to do,” said Reg Nordby.

After months of organizing, they are ready to proceed with the project. Their goal is to ship 3,000 kites by the end of October — one for every Canadian Soldier serving in Afghanistan.

Their web site is: http://www.kite4kids.com

Take a moment to visit the site and make a donation. You will be helping in a beautiful project.

And for my American readers, how about a similar project started in the USA? Think what an impact that could have for the good in Afghanistan.

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