Friends, the Bishop Maginn High School Amazon Graduation/ Prom Wish List sold out shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, about 12 hours after it was posted. I thank you, on behalf of these grateful young people, and in the name of empathy and compassion. I am so glad to be a part of this.
I am proud and happy to report that only one item remains on the Bishop Maginn Amazon Graduation and Prom Wish List, two Beauty And The Beast Romantic Roses in a Glass Dome ($15.99 each) with an LED wooden base for Prom tables.
The list was announced around 10 a.m. Wednesday.
We have $31.88 to go to purchase the last two pieces and sell out the list in a matter of hours, not days.
I am going outside to offer a prayer of thanks to whatever Gods and spirits will listen to me.
A generous blog reader is buying Zinnia flowers – yes, Zinnia the flower, in honor of the Princess Zinnia, the dog – to give to the female Bishop Maginn Students at graduation and also at the prom.
I mentioned that they have only had paper flowers at the school graduations, that will change. There will be paper flowers that they will assemble themselves (they love to do that), and some real flowers as well.
The students tell me that Zinnia, as a white animal that they love, is a spirit animal and thus a prophet of change.
They believe she is drawing good people to the Bishop Maginn Amazon Graduation Wish List, which is almost sold out as I write this. If people wish to contribute, they might do well to do it tonight.
I am starting to believe in Zinnia’s special powers myself.
The students, mostly refugees from Asia and Africa, have chosen her as their mascot and spokesperson. There is much love between Zinnia and these students.
She is so happy to go there, they are so happy to see her.
This is what I hoped and dreamed of when I got Zinnia, it just happened so much faster than I imagined.
She is a great spokesperson for this Wish List.
And for Bishop Maginn High School and its students.
The Army Of Good is one of the most extraordinary things to ever enter my life.
They simply never fail or turn away.
Bishop Maginn school officials thought we had left out most of the Wish List items, they were so shocked to see a handful at the end of the first day.
We launched the Wish List yesterday to help the seniors at Bishop Maginn get the things they want for their graduation but have never had. These are refugee families mostly, they have lost everything.
The list had a lot of funky and traditional small things, inexpensive things, but festive things, colorful things, cultural symbols.
Many of the seniors come from cultures that celebrate graduation with shawls, patches, stole’s and flowers
The Bishop Maginn students, mostly refugees, can’t afford those favors and festive symbols, their families have no money. Until now.
Yesterday, we put up 24 different items on the Wish List. There is one item left as I write this.
The biggest item on the list was a Graduation Plain Golden Honor Stole with a trim – used all over Asia – and a Greentime Beauty And The Beast Romantic Rose in a Glass Dome with LED Light Wooden Base For the Prom (table centerpiece.)
We have purchased all 40 of the Honor Stoles ($14.99 each) shortly before 9 pm. The refugee seniors from Asia said this meant the world to them.
There is one item left on the list, 2 of the eight Romantic Roses, they cost $15.99 apiece. Just $31.98 left to sell out the Wish List.
I think we will do that very soon. I can’t thank you all enough, and the students thank you a lot more than I can.
They are overjoyed, I am told. Me too.
After darkness, light.