You don’t need much to make something good. You can make baskets from pine needles, and you can make a prosperous town with little bits of good news. Photo (PD) by USDA.
The Brag Basket is open! This one is for June 5-7, 2015. Bring your good news to share with everyone.
What can you do in the Brag Basket?
- introduce yourself
- share some great news from this week
- congratulate a friend
- applaud for each other
- confess your undying love for rural places
How do you join in?
Below this post is the comment section. Add your good news there.
Reading this in your email? Hit reply.
Don’t like to brag? Just share some good news for yourself or a friend.
Just don’t make it an ad. I delete the ads that people stick in here. If you talk more about the people involved than the things, you’ll be fine.
It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.
Brag Basket: The Golding Group launched a new website for our rural non-profit client Tipton Childrens Home – http://www.tiptonchildrenshome.com/ as step one of a complete marketing, development and fundraising upgrade for the 100+ year old organization.
Kyle, you know I love this project, and I’m grateful to see you helping the Tipton Children’s Home get ready for another 100+ years of helping kids. Their rural environment makes all the difference!
Becky, we are using their beautiful rural setting and out-of-the-city location as port of their positioning. It’s a positive, not a negative to be in a small town.
Just wanted to say a big thanks to my community, Soldier, Iowa, for the nice memorial services and community celebrations of one of our local characters who passed unexpectedly and in a dramatic fashion this past winter. You can read about it in the Des Moines Register at http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/kyle-munson/2015/06/06/walter-ordway-organic-farmer-soldier-iowa-memorial/28567571/
Cheers to the people of Soldier, Iowa! And great to see you, Shannon.
Rick Skorupski sent along a post he’s written. It’s a great model for any small town to write about their best features:
“I ‘penned’ this one this morning. It is a rebuttal to the CNBC article on the best place to retire.”
http://helensd.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-best-city-to-retire-really.html
I have been a business owner since 1968. My current antique store was established 10 years ago when I was 62 (most people are thinking of retirement at that age). We were the only gift & antique store at that time in the town. We now have a main street lined with stores and the town is in
the process of becoming being a destination (about an hour from Denver). At 72 yrs old there are days when I think it is time to retire, and then our guest book
says stuff like “This place is the best store I have ever been in. Everything is just fabulous!” and then I think I just can’t quit.
Nora, that is such great validation! Thanks for all the service you’ve given your people and your town.