Can you describe in one word how you feel about being touched by diabetes?
As I sit here at home and continue to read your amazing stories I asked myself, how could we bring more awareness? how can let the world know?
Inspired by a beautiful campaign by my friend Martin Giraldo called "be part of the garden," and our great logo. I thought of a similar initiative.
What if you could just take a picture of yourself showing your hands with a one-word description of how you feel about being touched by diabetes?
For instance, when I read your stories, I feel encouraged. I feel that anything is possible because of you.
So there it is, I took a picture of myself showing my hands with the word "Courage"
Do you want to be part of this? This is how.
If you are a member of Flickr and I suspect that many of you are, join our Flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/tudiabetes. Upload your picture to your account and from the picture you can place it in the group. Very soon we'll learn and the world will be inspired by your words!
what do you say?
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Comment by Mollie on March 18, 2009 at 5:30pm -
Luis - i sent this message to Manny---and until i read further into the Word in Your Hand project - i thought it was all Manny - well i just learned that it was you dude---so this was really directed to you---
I was just flipping thru my new edition of Real Simple magazine and came across a 3 page spread on the Word in Hand Campaign. Who would have thought all of this could have possibly come so far? $5 for every hand that comes thru---Way to go Brother. Thanks for your passion, support and windfall of ideas. The world is a better place with you in it.
Cheers!!
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Comment by Anne on December 7, 2008 at 12:14am - A funtabulous project...is it still happening?
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Comment by Kathy on August 1, 2007 at 6:54pm
- Luis, I have not used Flickr before, but please tell me what I'm doing wrong. I marked my 2 pics as "public", but when I tried to pull them up at work today to show someone, I could not. They were asking for my password, which, of course, I immediately forgot (but have written down at home.) I must have left out one last step.
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Comment by MeadowLark on July 29, 2007 at 5:33pm
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Help! I finally got the picture to Flickr; but I dont know how to get it to the group.
Where do I click to move it?
MeadowLark
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Comment by Scott K. Johnson on July 29, 2007 at 10:20am
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I love this idea. Looking through the photos on flickr, I think they are very powerful.
I'll get something up soon!
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Comment by Pablo on July 25, 2007 at 12:29pm
- Ni bien me saque la foto la subo...
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Comment by Donald Rich on July 25, 2007 at 10:53am - One Word Would Be , Discouraging
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Comment by Luis E on July 25, 2007 at 3:35am
- Thank you leader! I love your photo. We already have 7 members in about 6 hours!
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Comment by Manny Hernandez on July 24, 2007 at 8:55pm -
I love the idea, Luis!!!!
I am going to link to your post from this discussion I started a few weeks ago:
http://www.tudiabetes.com/forum/topic/show?id=583967%3ATopic%3A15692&page=1&commentId=583967%3AComment%3A15740#583967Comment15740, since discussion topics stay alive on the home page as long as someone is adding a post to them, whereas blog posts (like this one) end up getting pushed out of the home page.
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