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East Bay family spreads joy through the power of plants
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PLEASANTON; Calif. (KGO) An East Bay family is making the community s spirits a little brighter amid the coronavirus pandemic and is anonymously planting happiness on peoples doorsteps.
During the pandemic, many people have been unable to gather at funerals, but the Gray family of Pleasanton decided to turn their grief into joy by paying it forward by creating the Planting Love Project. The Planting Love Project is a really easy way to do something kind in the community, said Christina Gray, creator of the Planting Love Project. We creating the Planting Love Project when my Uncle Romano Zan passed away two months ago. He died suddenly of a brain aneurysm and his loss was greatly felt by our family and the Redwood City community. Normally, you would go out and look for support when you are grieving with family and friends. The pandemic has put us all in some sense of grief right now and loss. We came up wit
She explained that all expenses will be paid by Mike s insurance, but still she knows it is not an easy ask. He s not able to work and right now doesn t have concentration or stamina, she said, so at this difficult time the plant means a lot to them. It will have a special spot in my garden.
Nadia Salomon, who met Gray in a writing critique group, thought the Plant Love Project was a brilliant idea and was happy to help with deliveries. I had to literally find five people to deliver the plants to, Salomon said. I close two I knew were going through stuff with the pandemic and I thought they could use a lift.