The Good Strangers Concept

A little over two years ago I moved to Alabama for a new job. Although excited about my move, a new city and career, I left behind my family and close friends. I’ve moved several times before but this was the first time I didn’t know a soul (other than a few of my colleagues I would be working with). It was in this new city I met my first three ‘good strangers’. I’ll write about them later.

As the months went by and I traveled often for my job, I began to find myself meeting more and more ‘good strangers’. You know, the ones who do kind things for you or others. The ones who share interesting stories about their lives. The ones who just exude heart, kindness, happiness or generosity. The ones who teach, inspire or help you to see the good in the world.

As each one would do something kind for me, share what they had done for someone else or I observed their good deeds, I began rolodexing them in my mind. Sometimes I would share these stories with others yet I began to wonder if over time the memories would fade. I wanted to keep them alive. But how?

Then one fall evening when I was in Boone, NC, I met another good stranger. It was then on the way home from that work trip that I decided to start a blog at the beginning of 2017 to capture the memories ( and sometimes a picture) of these kind souls that cross my path.

Today is January 1st 2017 and this is my first post in the birth of that blog. My challenge will be grammar and spelling! Plus, I tend to write like I think. Bare with me. Stay tuned for the story of my first ‘good strangers’ upon arriving to Alabama. They were a package deal, at least initially.