When our son Simon was an infant, he became very sick. We spent 4 months in the ICU while he was gravely ill and a number of years nearly house-bound once he was released. One thing I remember most vividly about that time was how much even the smallest acts of kindness, including help from people we had never even met, meant to me. These moments of connection helped me get through one of the hardest experiences of my life. The experience of profound hardship AND kindness led my wife to pursue a career as a Jewish Hospital Chaplain and led me to start this project.
I loved the idea of a simple tool people could use to recognize another person's act of kindness and that can be used as a small act of kindness in itself. I wanted to root this project in the value I hold most dear, "Tikkun Olam", or the Jewish idea that we are all on the planet to repair the world in whatever ways we can. It is my most core belief that we can all be ambassadors of goodness and repair as we walk through the world. My hope is that these tokens help people do that work.
-Jaime Jenett
I loved the idea of a simple tool people could use to recognize another person's act of kindness and that can be used as a small act of kindness in itself. I wanted to root this project in the value I hold most dear, "Tikkun Olam", or the Jewish idea that we are all on the planet to repair the world in whatever ways we can. It is my most core belief that we can all be ambassadors of goodness and repair as we walk through the world. My hope is that these tokens help people do that work.
-Jaime Jenett