IWOULD NORMALLY SAY SOMETHING FLIP AND FUN (and filled with thanks to you) on the occasion of another A Way to Garden comment millennium. The blog just passed the 9,000-comment mark, but with the events in Haiti on my mind I don’t want to celebrate, exactly. Instead, I’m marking the moment and sharing my blessings by doing a little bit to help rebuild Port-au-Prince’s general hospital, with an additional donation to Partners in Health. I’m sending them a little something for each time you have reached out to me with your support on A Way to Garden these last 22 months. Thank you for always being here for me.
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I can’t think of a better way to say, ‘thank you’ than helping in Haiti. Thank YOU for being here for us and now, for being here for those who truly need you most.
Margaret – I’m touched to see you and so many other bloggers extending their financial support to Haiti via the ‘cents per comment’ method. It’s such a nice way to get your readers involved, and to help us feel that our comments can make a difference, no matter how small.
Congratulations on your 9,000 milestone.
Abby Palmer
Margaret: Thank you! Partners In Health is such a worthy charity. We will all need to continue to support their efforts long after the news cycle.
In addition, your blog is such a welcome treat. Keep up the good work in all your endeavors.
Peace.
An excellent gift, observation and honor (congrats!)
Welcome, Ann H. Thank you in all ways — the reader visits really encourage me, and frankly I find the plant talk even more of a refuge in these days of such hard-to-grasp news. I hope you will be a regular.
@Cheryl: Thanks; my neighbor Dr. Mark Hyman and his orthopedic-surgeon wife and father-in-law have been in Haiti with a PIH team since last Friday, literal first responders, and it is his lead I follow in choosing the focus of my gift. I could not agree with you more about how the need for support will be ongoing. Thanks for your good wishes, and see you soon.
@Kenn and Abby: Thank you both for all your encouragement in our funny little community here. :)
Oh, that’s good. Thanks.
Margaret, it’s us (we?), the commenters, who should be thanking you for this special place! What a wonderful idea though to mark your 9,000th comment with a gift to such a sad and worthy cause. Perhaps when all is settled and calm again in Haiti, there will be a new beginning for the Haitian people who have shown such courage in such terrible adversity.
And thank you for always being here for us.
A way to go!
What a wonderful way to celebrate.
Thank you for A Way to Garden, life has not been the same.
How lucky we ALL are to have you Margaret.
Thank you.
I don’t comment often, but I’m glad my little blips will count towards a good cause.
We love you Margaret–congrats on your 9000 posts and your generous gesture.
Hello to Mary Z, and thank you for the good words of encouragement, here and always. :)
Althought I previously made a donation to help rebuild Haiti, your thoughtfulness and generosity has prompted me to also give to PIH.
Thank you, Margaret, for A Way to Garden – the Web site and the book – and your generosity toward Haiti, which will need our help this time next year, too.