By the way, I'm only going to use my own photos and artwork here. This peony is from my garden. So, this week, in the physical training realm, I've done aqua aerobics and yoga at the gym, and today will be a running day, and I'm pretty psyched about it really. For a status on where I'm starting from in the training, I've always maintained a healthy weight all my life. I am in good shape and good health for a woman of my age. However, I am short. I am not exactly built to be a running machine. In elementary school I used to be the kid who puked after the 100 meter dash. It kind of spoiled the experience of track and field for me. I started running again with my dog Baci, because he runs for the joy of it, and he taught me how to do it that way. It was way better. So I guess I'm a woman who runs with the Samoyeds.... :-) On the fundraising side, last weekend I printed out pictures of Baci and me and stapled them onto some pledge forms with a hand written thank you note that I can keep in my purse. A lot of people around town recognize Baci more than they would recognize me! I had a 30 second speaking event where I got to introduce my company to about a hundred people, and I let the person introducing me know that I was going to run the "Race for the Cure" so that he could mention the event and begin building interest in that crowd too. And I'm getting ready to send out a newsletter to my customers, and I'm including a section about the event in it. I am hoping that there will be a few people inspired to contribute and support my efforts. My customers are mostly really great people, and I have a lot of confidence that I'll make my goal "to be able to contribute more than I would be able to do on my own." It's been a rough time for us on the personal side of things and on the business side we've been under a lot of pressure to get the next set of releases of our software out there. The Race for the Cure is a way for me to gather up all that stressful energy and in Access: Public What do you think? Print views (205)  

Someone wisely pointed out that internet security is always a concern, and one of the links somewhere had a typo in it, and was not popping up with the "lock icon." Two things to mention about Race for the Cure when you go to make a donation: Make sure that the URL link has “https:” which is also an indicator that it is a secure site. Also look for the little lock in your browser. There seems to be more than one way to navigate to get to the donation site. This link is secure and will get you there, no muss, no fuss: https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=162635&supId=131865988 Secondly, the site is hosted by kintera, which is an organization that helps to coordinate transactions for charitable purposes, verify the legitimacy of the charity, etc. The transaction is supposed to go through Verisign, which is a very reputable secure transaction company. If you look at the bottom of the donation page, you should be able to confirm both of those. Also, you can find this event’s site through the national Susan G. Komen foundation, and look me up by name of the participant (Catherine White) as an alternative way to get to the same page. There are also physical addresses and phone numbers where you can make a contribution if you don't want to do the transaction online. I am grateful for your consideration and support for this project, and for your contributions to help me reach my goal.

i didn't want to run today because I had a really great day, and I was feeling like maybe it would be more fun to just stay home... but I went to the gym with my mom anyway. Her art was rejected again, so her mood was very bad. Ask Theo about VIncent. Really great artists need.... support. So, I did my running, and about a mile into it, my attitude about it changed. My thoughts went along these lines. Nobody really wants to do chemo... either... and this whole project is about support. For this project I have to allow support to "possess" me,so that it can literally move me around. One foot in front of the other, repeat... vigorously. I believe that support can ooze and flow through us to wherever it is needed and sometimes that is tough when it would be nice to stay home and do something more relaxing after a big day. If you are willing, the support comes to you too. Even an abstract sense of interconnectedness provides a sense of support to me, which helps me provide it to other people, who provide it to other people, who provide it to other people. It can circle around to me or you, and off to wherever it needs to go again. Whoosh! And then running was good again. I actually picked up the pace a bit towards the end. I'll probably still be sore tomorrow, and my mom may still be cranky about her paintings being rejected, but I won't regret having done it either.

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