Posted November 19, 2009 

So, the woman from the plane took the $40 that she got from returning the pair of leather gloves and bought dozens of pairs of $1 Day-Glo Orange gloves. Then, she distributed these gloves to the city's homeless, person by person, pair by pair, face to face.

Many months later she was gratified to find that she would still see homeless people on the street wearing Day Glo orange gloves to warm their hands in the cold of winter.

I was struck how a single woman, all on her own, bravely approaching the untouchables of our society, could and would touch the lives of so many in a meaningful way. She didn’t need a lot of money, or invest a lot of her time. It struck me that any one of us on any given day might be able to do something to bring comfort to others in need, one on one, or by the dozen as she had done. 

 

 

She was a grassroots, seat-of-the-pants humanitarian, and she set an example for me that I have never forgotten.

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