David John Machado Random Acts of Kindness Month

The month of November has so many reminders that you are not with me, that you are missing from this life I am trying so hard to live.

Towards the end of October it started hitting me hard...each day is a struggle, but this quickly approaching month is going to be full of days that wish to bring me to my knees...days undoubtedly harder than every other.  How do I brace myself for this next wave...the one threatening to pull me under?  How strong do I have to be to open a door and walk through knowing that on the other side the pain is going to be excruciating?  Knowing there is no other alternative but to do this...I have to walk this walk in order to come out beyond these days.  I have no choice but to open this door and go inside the month of November.

I will celebrate, I will focus my pain into something bigger than it...I will love you my David and I will share you with others, that is how I will gather strength for the coming days.  So I devised the following and  posted it on Facebook and I have kept this purpose in my sights...it will be the light at the end of a month long, painful tunnel.

David John Machado Random Acts of Kindness Month

At an early age I learned of random 'acts of kindness' and 'paying it forward' from my parents, they did it Always and they did it in a big way...it is something I have strived to do my whole life.

When my husband first 'witnessed me in the act' he thought it was such a great thing that he became a doer too...it sort of became a friendly competition between us at times...trying to see who had outdone the other.  Nothing makes you feel better than doing for others. 

So, with this in mind, I have decided that I am going to celebrate my beautiful David and his birthday, November 23rd, by doing random acts of kindness in his honor all month and I hope that you will choose to join me.  What better way to memorialize one man's life by simply helping another.   If you wish to participate in this birthday gift giving, I ask that you please copy the words below onto a slip of paper to be presented to the recipient of your kind act...It is my wish that we create a HUGE chain reaction of greatness!  I would LOVE to hear back about the kindness that is being generated in honor of David...I believe he would be very touched.

You have received this random act of kindness

in honor of David John Machado who drowned

off the coast of Gloucester MA on May 5, 2013.

David was a loving, kind and giving man who lived

 for helping others.  So on what would be his 49th 

birthday I hope that we have made you smile and

brightened your day just a little, and our wish is

that you would choose to pay it forward and

present this note along with your 'gift' 

in honor of my husband David.

PEACE