Author's Note: This is a post that I have prepared for my team's website. Please visit Adventures for the Cure for more information about the team, its mission, and its activities.Let me begin this posting with a reminder: a reminder of why we are here.
AFC was created to inspire everyone to use their gifts and talents to make positive change in the world around us.
The organization has also set out to inspire others to live healthy lifestyles and to adventure beyond their perceived limits, because ANYTH!NG Is Possible
The organization has also set out to inspire others to live healthy lifestyles and to adventure beyond their perceived limits, because ANYTH!NG Is Possible
We have focused on using our love of cycling to accomplish this task, but any gift or talent can be used to help others and do something good!
AFC's mission is a clear. How realize that mission, well, that's not so clear.
We love our bikes, and we desire to do something more. We wear the dots to represent something greater than ourselves, and we seek opportunities to help--with our causes and within the community.
This is about my cause and my mission. It's my validation of my choice to join AFC.
What I Do, and Why (Three R's)
My cause focuses on raising money for life-saving cancer research. Why cancer? I am a cancer survivor.
In 2009, I raised over $2,000, contributing to a total of more than $4.5 million.
As of Tuesday, August 17, 2010 I have raised $1,700. My goal is to raise $4,000 by October.
I also am an active blogger. Sometimes I am serious, and sometimes I am frivolous.
When I write about the experience of cancer I get more serious.
Recently, I have been evolving a concept surrounding the post-cancer experience. I refer to it as "Cancer, Stage T".
- http://wheelsuckerdiaries.
blogspot.com/2010/08/thrivers- not-survivors.html
Staying in Stage T is a daily exercise. It is a daily affirmation. It is a struggle that has its good and bad days. When things are going well, cancer is a distant memory—something you witnessed from the window of your speeding train. It lingers for a moment, but recedes as the new landscape—exciting, new, filled with promise—rushes forward into your consciousness.
When things are going badly, your private hell beckons.
- http://wheelsuckerdiaries.
blogspot.com/2010/08/ celebrating-cancerhappy- anniversary.html
I celebrate my cancer experience—my odyssey—because it broke me. It broke me in so many ways and into so many pieces that I still don't recognize me. I am picking up the pieces, dusting them off, considering them, and either retaining or rejecting. What do I keep? What do I toss?
That's how I realize the Mission.
At AFC, we love life. We all experience that differently, but we have connected together to promote an appreciation of life. We may not be able to bring happiness, but I believe that we help to inspire joy.
Please consider supporting my ride with Pelotonia by making a donation to fund life-saving cancer research. 100% of all funds raised support research. And if not now, that's fine! All i really ask is that you live the mission, and that you love life!
That's why we're here.
Thrive!
- http://wheelsuckerdiaries.
blogspot.com/2010/08/please- help-me-ride-cancer-into- ground.html
I know that this is a bold request. Mine is an ambitious goal.
$4,000 seems like a lot of money. But when you compare it to the costs of crushing cancer, it's but a drop in a very large barrel. .
Your help—in any amount—makes a difference.
Last year someone donated $2.00. It was what he had to give. He simply wanted to help.
In that spirit, I humbly ask you to donate what you can, if you can.
Every dollar counts.
Please help.
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