The Addison Rotary Club

Our Foundation made a $1,000 grant to Project Mom Bags! This organization provides comfort items to moms of babies in the cardiac ICU. Each bag costs about $150 and is filled with comfort and hygiene essentials.

Project Mom Bags makes sure the moms of these critically ill babies are seen and supported in their journey!

The Addison Rotary Club was honored to welcome Amber Bogardus, Laura Hardy-Falls, and Emily Morrow from Project Mom Bags.

Their mission is simple but powerful: providing thoughtfully packed “Mom Bags” to support mothers with children in the cardiac care ICU during one of the most challenging and emotional moments of their lives. Each bag includes postpartum recovery supplies, hygiene items, comfort essentials, snacks, resources, and encouragement.

Whether it’s day one or day fifty, their goal is to remind moms:
You are seen. You are supported. You are not alone.

Thank you for the compassion, care, and hope you bring to families facing incredibly difficult circumstances. 💙❤️

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Laura Hardy-Falls with Project Mom Bags shares the story of how her experiences inspired the genesis of an organization caring for moms dealing with children with cardiac issues.

Schalee Sanchez Janet Meyer Diane Fullingim Keith Einstein Kristen Merkins Greg Grimm Chartell Brown John Gilchrist Jill Jacobs Cumnock Cathy Zelzer Rotary District 5810 - North Texas Wendy Whiffen

We're delighted to see the keratometer we donated supporting the wonderful Guerrero Clinic!

The Addison Rotary Club hosted a joyful baby shower to celebrate two of our members and their growing families. The room was filled with festive decorations, cupcakes, and an abundance of thoughtful gifts, creating a warm and celebratory atmosphere.

Exciting twist, the club isn’t just welcoming two babies, we’re expecting three! One of the couples is preparing for twins!

We look forward to welcoming our newest (and youngest!) Rotarians in the months ahead.

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Our happy Rotarian expectant parents opening presents from a special Rotary baby shower!

A very special program today - celebrating members Charlie and Josh on their respective new babies. Thanks to both for letting the club share in your celebration!

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The Bushmen of the Kalahari speak of two kinds of hunger.

The Little Hunger is the hunger for food. The need for something in your belly — a fire in your body that must be fed to stay alive.

But then there’s the Great Hunger.

The hunger for meaning.
The hunger that lives deeper than the stomach — in the chest, in the bones, in the silence behind your eyes.
It’s the ache to belong. To matter. To know why you are here.

Laurens van der Post, the man pictured here, spent years among the Bushmen, listening. Learning. Trying to understand what we’ve forgotten in the modern world.

He said the most dangerous thing in life isn’t sadness. It’s emptiness — the slow, bitter erosion that comes from living without meaning.

We chase money. Status. Comfort.
We chase happiness like it’s the point.
But happiness is fleeting.
Meaning is enduring.

Because once you’re doing something that matters — really matters to your soul — it doesn’t matter whether you feel good all the time.

You feel right.
You feel connected.
You feel like you belong to something bigger than you.

And in that belonging, even the hardships become sacred.

This photo isn’t just a meeting between two men.
It’s a quiet moment between two ways of being.
One remembers that we are not just bodies to be fed, but spirits to be fulfilled.

And maybe that’s the real hunger we’ve been trying to feed all along.