So here's the thing....I was sitting on a bench at the beach on
tuesday, watching a huge display by the seals,pelicans, seagulls.
There were at least 30 seals playing off of our wharf.  It was sunny
and my higher power was certainly close.

My monkey mind went from lamenting missing the MS walk this year, to
the relationships of mothers and daughters, Kate and her mom and
DeeTee and Linda, prayers, ASA , the nature of the universe and Mr.
Rogers.  I love that Mr. Rogers interview where he talked about being
asked to prayer for so many people and that each prayer he said for
someone else made him feel blessed and grateful that he knew that many
people to pray for and got to daily forge that many connections.

I was also thinking about ASA people of the past like Char who I miss
everyday just to name one of several hundred.  One thing that has
always been strange in newsgroup reality is that we lose touch with
each other.  We had a buddy system years ago where at least one person
had your phone number.  It is just so strange to realize as we go
through the  archives, how many people we have such intense
relationships with who for whatever the reason, are no longer posting.

Out of those windmills of my mind, I came up with an idea.  I want to
get a number of ovarian cancer bracelets, like the lance armstrong
living strong yellow bracelets or the pink one for breast cancer.  I
found the bracelets (they are sold as a benefit for the lynne cohen
ovarian cancer foundation).  What I would like to do is offer everyone
on ASA a bracelet that we can wear (they are very unisex-here I see as
many men with yellow bracelets as I do women).  If Jo is up for it,
she and i can mail them out to anyone who wants one.  The purpose
would be to support ovarian cancer research, to remember often each
day to say a prayer for DeeTee, and to know that we as a whole group
of people called ASA members, are connected to each other. My vision
for this would be that as we wear these bracelets, we get to hold
DeeTee close to our hearts and then later, when you aren't wearing the
bracelet which now resides in your jewelry  or keepsake box or on your
dresser or around the shift knob of your car, you will remember all of
your ASA family and say hi.

 Kimmy, can you post this on the site you and KJ have as there are
also many people who post there who don't post much on ASA?

So the mechanics of this will be:

Let me know if you want a bracelet.  Send me an address.  I ordered
the first 20 today but will keep getting bracelets until we run out of
people who want bracelets.

Let's raise some money for ovarian cancer, support or darling DeeTee,
and reinforce out community of ASA.

I will repost this every three or four days as things do get lost
quickly

One last thing, please reach out for a bracelet whether you are a
regular member, a lurker, or a newbie.

m