The Gift From France

Do you believe in ran­dom acts of kindness?

Last Octo­ber, Bar­bara from Home in France intro­duced me to the “Pay It For­ward” game.

Accord­ing to the rules, “the exchange focuses on doing an act of kind­ness with­out expect­ing any­thing in return other than that the recip­i­ent will, in their turn, pass the kind­ness along and pay it for­ward in their own way.” I was one of the com­menter who agreed to receive a small gift (you bet I was!) and to pass it on to other bloggers.

True to her word, Bar­bara sent me a small gift that I received this week end: two nice book­marks. She must have guessed I love reading!

And Bar­bara picked the per­fect gift! One of the book­mark has a quote of Bob Dylan (whom I love!): “How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?” — per­fect for trav­el­ers like us! The other one has pic­tures of the famous Petit beurre LU. I was born and raised in Nantes, France, and the sym­bol if the city is con­stant rain the Petit beurre LU, because that’s where was based the The Lefèvre-Utile bis­cuit fac­tory (see a pic­ture of the fac­tory tower I took when I was in France in March).

So merci beau­coup Barbara!

Now, I’d like to send you guys some­thing. Accord­ing to the rules, “I am going to agree to send some­thing fun, inspir­ing or uplift­ing” to three ran­dom com­menters. I’ll use a ran­dom num­ber gen­er­a­tor to pick the lucky ones. In turn, those three will post this infor­ma­tion and pick 3 peo­ple they want to send some­thing to and so on.

This is the third time I receive some­thing from fel­low blog­gers: I got a troll from Nor­way, from Ren­nyBA, and more recently, Shionge sent me a sur­prise pack­age from Sin­ga­pore. We are all used to email and vir­tual net­work­ing, but I’m telling you, receiv­ing a sur­prise by reg­u­lar mail is a great thing to expe­ri­ence.

So… com­ment, be nice, and I’ll be your Santa Claus!

The ran­dom pick

I used a ran­dom num­ber gen­er­a­tor to pick three com­menters to participate:

• Num­ber 1: Scar­let
• Num­ber 12: Brenda
• Num­ber 8: Breigh

Send me your address, girls, and wait for Santa Claus!

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