‘People’ Archives
Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins is awesome squared. Born without shin bones, both her legs were amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics and went on to become an athlete. In fact, at Georgetown, where she double-majored in history and diplomacy, she became the first double amputee to compete in NCAA Division 1 track [...]
Chris Harame
Some people live extraordinary lives. Some live lives with extraordinary moments. Chris Harame is a carpenter. He's a tinkerer and a builder and a story-teller. He was a deep-sea diver for the Navy, and served on a submarine-rescue ship. And he was on the USS Detriot the morning Pearl Harbor was bombed. There aren't a lot of these [...]
Harvey Ancel
Harvey Ancel has been donating books to Littleton (Colorado) public schools for 15 years. In that time, he figures he's donated 100,000 books. That's a lot of reading, folks. At age 93 he's still at it. Pretty darn awesome.
Amiri Horn
Amiri Horn is making a difference. When heard that the people of Haiti were suffering, he decided to act. Not only did he gather up all of the band aids in the house to send, he convinced his mom to let him open a lemonade stand. Five months later, he's raised over $3,700 for Mercy Corp (a pretty darn awesome organization), and is working [...]
Bill Gates & Warren Buffett
The two richest people in America not only want to give their money away, but they also want other billionaires to do the same. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are planning to give most of their money to charity and they're asking the 400 wealthiest people in America to join them in giving away 50% or more of their fortune. Why? Because they [...]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
When I was in high school, I didn't know a lot of gay people. For a young lesbian, that's a hard place to be. I used to read short stories from a book called, "Sweat," written by a woman named Lucy Jane Bledsoe. That name was stored in my subconscious, secured in a place of comfort, a place of belonging. I saw her name again [...]
Cornelia Seigneur
When Cornelia Seigneur saw a Portland, Oregon, police officer get thrown out of a cafe for no other reason than the fact that he was a police officer she blogged about it; about how she didn't understand why a public servant wasn't welcome for a cup of coffee. Her blog post went viral and was picked up by national media, resulting in an outpouring [...]
Street performers
Street performers are pretty awesome people. They perform nightly, or daily, doing all kinds of amazing things. I saw this guy in Rome. He was riding a super-high unicycle and juggling fire. Um, that's awesome.
Reed Sandridge
Many thanks to Melia Dicker (previously featured on 365 Awesome! herself) for this post suggestion. Reed Sandridge dealt with being laid off a little differently than most. He began a year of giving away $10 a day to a stranger. On his blog, Year of Giving, he explains why: My goal is not to change the lives of those with whom I come in [...]
The people of Potenza Italy
Yesterday, my aunt and I visited the city of Potenza Italy. We found the people there to be amazingly helpful and kind. Just in asking for directions, we ended up with rides both to and from the train station - which was quite a way from the city center. Strangers guided us the whole day, making us feel loved and safe. If you ever [...]
