Most readers of the blog know that I spent the end of last week in beautiful sunny Austin Texas, meeting with representatives from the American Cancer Society along with my husband and partner in all things Bill along with good friend, the Frozen Pea Fund fairy godmother, Connie Reece.
I appreciate the confidence in the Frozen Pea movement that the national ACS office showed in sending a reresentative to meet with us to discuss how what we do could benefit them. At the end of the day however, being tied into a Frozen Pea Fund season and the other suggestions we were presented with didn't seem to fit in with the innovative personality of the forward thinking early adopters who have grown the pea fund so quickly over the period of ten weeks.
So before close of business on Friday we filed incorporation papers for the Frozen Pea Fund in order to continue to do the kind of communicating, outreach, funding and community building that my friends and family agreed were important.
Too tired from flights, meetings, decision making and paper-filing to go out and celebrate, we did manage to put together a quick frozen pea fund video, propped up in bed as if we had spent a relaxing day there. That was the furthest thing from the truth but it took my mind off being so exhausted, and communicated to our friends at least the highlights of what was happening.
The next hurdle was ever leaving that bed. Eventually hunger won out and my husband and I decided to take a walk down memory lane with a visit to Black Eyed Pea for a late dinner. And while it isn't the same in 2008 in Austin as it was when the kids were growing up and we used to go to one in Herndon VA sometime in the late 1980s I had a good salad and didn't have to do the drive-through burger thing.
As in all things however, we do move on and changes happen in both people and institutions as well as restaurants. We are learning that in the Pea Fund as we learn it in other life experiences. There are up-sides and down-sides in cancer, in life, in where we eat and in decisions we make about the future.
I'm now a green pea person perhaps. But I hope our Black Eyed Pea video makes you smile.
Just popping in to say hello and send you warm wishes. Sorry I haven't been able to visit more, I miss you so! Hugs and love to you, hon.
Posted by: Marti | Feb 26, 2008 at 12:24 PM