Love Letters Upstate NY Chapter

Given an opportunity to make a difference in my community in January 2005 through an eighth grade assignment called “Promote the Common Welfare”, a history mark was made which enabled me to configure Love Letters: Random Cards of Kindness, Inc. My inspiration came as a gift from Linda Bremner, the Founder of Love Letters Inc., who started this national organization when her son battled a life-threatening illness. As Linda’s son, Andy, became weaker and eventually passed away, she looked through his special box and found the names and addresses of his cancer camp friends. Linda decided to send all of them a note. Afterwards she began receiving responses from the kids including one which said, “I didn’t think anyone knew I was alive.” Once Linda read this, she began sending weekly cards to her son’s camping friends and that’s when her idea blossomed into Love Letters, Inc. whose goal was to send homemade cards on a weekly basis to children with life-threatening illnesses throughout the United States.

Linda was an extraordinary lady, during one of our phone conversations she said, “It only takes one person to move a mountain and then others will follow.” I didn’t know exactly what she meant at the time but I wrote her beautiful quote in my book. Later when I received an e-mail from her friend saying Linda passed away and at her request the national organization, Love Letters Inc., was closed, my hands gravitated to Linda’s quote and then I realized what the quote meant. I wanted to be the one to move the mountain to help children going through the difficult times of treatments and surgeries. I took the initiative to carry on Linda’s legacy by encouraging others to create positive, upbeat homemade cards for children with life-threatening illnesses through Love Letters: Random Cards of Kindness, Inc.

www.LoveLettersCares.com