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Back in November, as\u00a0I was meandering the aisles at the Mind Body Spirit Expo in King of Prussia, PA, I came to a\u00a0booth at which two women were beaming beatifically. In front of them was a table of simple wares. Stones engraved with a word-\u00a0 gratitude, strength, inspire, forgive, and kindness, were artfully displayed, beckoning me to check them out. If you take\u00a0a moment to say those words aloud, how do you feel? I am washed over with a sense of ahhhh~<\/p>\n

That was the intent of\u00a0 Wendy Marcelli and Lia Koyner whose daughters were the matchmakers who brought these two enthusiastic conscious entrepreneurs together to launch nothing short of a miracle movement.\u00a0Birthed on November 1st, 2014, it comes from their desire to make a difference. That they do.<\/p>\n

According to Marcelli,\u00a0“\u00a0PassItOnword\u00a0 <\/a>\u00ae was created from a real life experience that changed me. While visiting a dentist’s office, \u00a0I watched an older woman lovingly caring for her impaired sister who was in a wheelchair. I could tell the dental procedure she endured had taken a toll on both of them.”\u00a0 When she witnessed the interaction,\u00a0Marcelli was prompted to give the woman an angel stone that she had carried with her. At that moment, lives were forever changed and a business idea was sparked.<\/p>\n

They considered what could happen if they took polished stones and imbued them with the loving energy of the aforementioned verbiage and a placed code on the back of each one. When someone purchased the stone, they would then go to the website www.passitonword.com to register the talisman. The next step is to share what it was that attracted them to that particular one and\u00a0what the word means to them. From that point on, they carry it with them until they feel moved to pass it on to someone else with the instruction to do the same thing. The next person returns to the website and continues the tale of the\u00a0traveling stone.\u00a0Thus far, 65 \u00a0stones have been passed along by siblings, employers, spouses\u00a0and friends. One stone has traveled from the United States to Saudi Arabia. Another is inspiration for someone who is training for a race. Yet another is in gratitude for a loving marriage.<\/p>\n

We live in\u00a0a world that sometimes\u00a0seems distant and disconnected, \u00a0with folks feeling like they are out there all by themselves. Marcelli shares: “What makes PassItOnword so unique is as soon as you purchase or are given a stone, you are immediately thinking about others.” That takes us out of our sense of loneliness.\u00a0Even if you are not in the presence of someone, they are with\u00a0you in\u00a0your heart.<\/p>\n

The pair refer to\u00a0PassItOnword as a\u00a0social network of goodwill.\u00a0 As such, they donate a portion of the proceeds that the stones generate to\u00a0 Alex\u2019s Lemonade Stand Foundation<\/a>, <\/strong>which fights childhood cancer\u00a0 and\u00a0 charity: water<\/strong> <\/a>which is a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries.<\/p>\n

Imagine a world in which we all pass the inspiration, gratitude, forgiveness, kindness and strength onward and see it come full circle. Just say the word.<\/p>\n

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