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🗓️ 24 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | For over 45 years, Patagonia has given a damn about the clothes they make and their impact on the |
0:05.4 | environment. Join them this holiday season as you consider what you give. Pass along cherish gear |
0:11.0 | that you no longer use. Try something new with a friend. Repair that favorite jacket or donate |
0:16.5 | to a good cause. Get inspired with more ideas at Patagonia.com slash stories and cheers to the joy |
0:24.3 | of giving on a living planet. So there's about a week left in 2021 and at this time of year I always |
0:34.9 | look back and I take stock. I will not lie this year was not an easy one for me and I know I'm not |
0:42.9 | alone in feeling that way. I mean don't be wrong I've had some great memories, some bright spots, |
0:48.4 | lemonade was made but overall. I don't know yeah it was all capped by the loss of my grandfather. |
0:58.4 | He lived a very long life. He was up kind and sharp till the end. He was the kind of person |
1:03.8 | that discovered weightlifting in his 90s if that gives you a sense. Rationally I know that |
1:10.9 | we were in bonus time on the number of years we had together but his passing I missed him |
1:16.9 | and I missed my grandma who passed a few years earlier. They were the kind of people who when they |
1:21.5 | saw a problem they figured out some way to contribute to a solution and that always left an |
1:25.6 | impression on me. During their retirement years they purchased, made and packed 10,000 sack |
1:31.9 | lunches for people experiencing homelessness in their community. It's a lot of PB&J sandwiches. |
1:37.6 | Doing that work with them left an impression on me. This year when it started to feel like there |
1:42.5 | were a lot of problems I would think back to my grandparents and I remind myself that there are |
1:47.6 | an equal number of ways to be a part of potential solutions and I would get to work. That has always |
1:54.4 | seemed like the best way to remember them. Today on the final installment of the Best Give |
1:59.4 | Series presented by our friends at Patagonia Noah Manky, a climber and middle school music educator |
2:05.4 | from Wisconsin shares a story about his great uncle Jack and how he kept the legend living on. |
2:11.6 | I'm Fitzgahall, you're listening to the Dirtbag Darius. Happy Holidays. |
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