Helping a Distressed Child in Need - The Moyer Foundation

Today I attended the Moyer Foundation Annual Giving Luncheon with my wife, and the entire Nology Media team. We took up a table of 10.  While it seemed like big deal to need an entire table, we were merely a fraction of the 1,000 guests in attendance. 

The Moyer Foundation has been a client of ours for a few months, and I grow more amazed by the work they do every day we do work for them. While Mr. Moyer no longer pitches for the Seattle Mariners, he and his wife have stayed committed to keeping their foundation in Seattle. Ten years ago they created a foundation, as they stated, with no real mission, and no real idea of what they wanted to do for the community. But they soon realized their place in philanthropy was helping children in distress. 

I’ve seen the Foundation’s overview video several times in the course of our work, and I try to hold it together each time. Today, presented it on four massive screens, was no different. When a child has lost a parent, or a child has been affected by some kind of parental addiction, they’re forever changed. They can easily be left behind. Because of the programs the Moyer Foundation funds and supports, kids can learn they are not alone. They can share grief, anger, hurt, in a safe, open environment.  They can begin to heal.

My wife and I are often asked to be involved in this charity or that, but the work the Moyer Foundation does has real impact. You see it in the expressions on the faces of the children the Foundation reaches.  You can hear it in their voices. Driven by the passion of the people who founded and run the Foundation.

If you’re looking for a cause to support, consider learning more about the work Moyer Foundation does, or make a donation to help a child in distress. 

If you don’t do it this year, you’ll be one year older when you do.

— Warren Miller

Restart

I’ve seen lots of friends abandon Twitter accounts. Some just stop sending Tweets for no reason. For months they go without writing anything. But the writers - the ones that enjoy the interaction - they come back.  Some thought spurns their interest in the medium again.  Some people abandon Facebook. A privacy hack or the annoyance of all the requests to play mindless games just puts them over the top. A lot - a lot of people blog when blogging seems like a fun activity - or a way to make money - and then they walk away when they realize blogging is work.  

“I write Tweets for a living,” I told someone today standing outside of a restaurant. It’s an oversimplification. I do write a lot of tweets. It’s amazing how much power 140 characters can carry. I write a lot of content for other people in my line of work. In the afternoon I though about my tongue-in-cheek comment. If I took out the words, tweet, or blog, or case studies, or proposals, the sentence is: I write for a living. 

I write for a living. So I might as well spend some time writing for me. Who knows where it might take me.      

My wife and I were planning to hit the gym tonight. Our son didn’t sleep very much this afternoon, so we decided to skip the gym and get out for some fresh air. The result? The impromptu picnic. Tides were high tonight, and the water was hitting loudly against the sea wall dividing the marina from Elliot Bay. The view aside, it was a great night to be a father and a husband. 

What’s in a fortune…cookie?

Today, I was having lunch with some colleagues at PF Chang’s in Bellevue. At the end of the meal, the check came, and I picked a fortune cookie out of the pile of the six or so. It said:

“Remember three months from this date. Good things are in store for you.”

Three months from this date just happens to be my wife’s due date.

Life is beautiful.