Saturday, April 26, 2008

traveling the midwest, by holly

I wanted to take these pictures with me on this trip, because I was following Hanson on tour to four of their shows, and Hanson gives me hope. It's rare today to see celebrities use their fame for something good. Prior to each concert they host a one-mile barefoot walk around the venue to raise awareness for Toms Shoes - a company that donates a pair of shoes for a child in poverty with every pair of shoes that is purchased. Hanson have also been doing a lot of work raising awareness for the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and their song "Great Divide" is available on iTunes as a charity single to help support HIVSA. During the walk in Indianapolis I was able to talk to Isaac Hanson about The Polaroid Community and how it's a project to inspire hope, and I gave him one of the photos and he thought it was really neat. I placed the rest of the photos up while on these one-mile walks.

"I find hope and it gives me rest/I find hope in a beating chest/I find hope in what eyes don't see/I find hope in your hate for me/Have no fear when the waters rise/We can conquer this great divide" - Hanson