10/06/2025
Hands that built homes now build wind chimes filled with hope.
We call him Uncle Al.
He’s the kind of man who shows up before you even ask, tools in hand, smile on his face. He’s the one who fixes what’s broken, trims the yard, helps carry the heavy things, and refuses a single dollar for any of it. He’s spent his whole life doing drywall construction, the kind of hard and quiet work that builds homes and holds communities together.
A few months ago Uncle Al was diagnosed with lung cancer. He’s not a smoker. The doctors took him off work, but anyone who knows him knows he doesn’t know how to sit still.
So now, instead of hanging drywall, he spends his days crafting wind chimes and canes. He finds and chooses wood from all over the United States, handpicks each piece, carves it, sands it, and seals it himself. Every single one carries his craftsmanship, his heart, and a little of his fight.
The VA is covering his medical treatments, but the money from his sales and donations helps him pay his bills and put food on the table while he’s unable to work. He’s not looking for sympathy, just a way to keep going, to keep creating, to keep some normalcy in a season that’s anything but.
We have some of Uncle Al’s handmade wind chimes available for sale in our office for anyone who wants to take one home and support him directly. Every purchase goes straight to him.
And while he never asked for it, I’m sharing his GoFundMe for those who feel moved to help a man who has spent his entire life helping everyone else.
https://gofund.me/13692d3fc
Sometimes good people fall on hard times. And sometimes, if we’re lucky, we get the chance to return the kindness they’ve spent their life giving away.
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