Volunteering at the Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer Event
by Linda ~ March 5th, 2008
I am heading up to Frisco, Colorado this weekend to volunteer at the registration desk at the Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer snowshoe event at the Frisco Nordic Center. My friend Kay Beaton is an official photographer of the event. This is yet another sterling example of how hundreds of thousands of women band together to make a difference. Dare I say it - it’s a ritual for women to support women.
This past October I participated in the Race the Cure for the Susan B. Komen Foundation in Denver. More than 50 thousand women walked together, talked the whole way, formed new friendships, supported current friendships all for the benefit of helping each other prevent or cure breast cancer. I was delighted by the extent women went to dress up and make themselves unique for that day. I heard many stories about how groups of women have been participating in this event as a yearly “ritual” for many years.
My Mother was a breast cancer survivor as was my Grandmother. I am of course on the list as it is an intensely hereditary disease. I can only hope that because of the way I live, eating healthy, exercise and a positive attitude - the disease will not attack me. But if it does, the site of the women, families and even men gathering together to support this movement to find a cure gives me hope for me and for women all over the world.
If you can’t be there you can still donate!
Linda Ann Smith
Speaker, Author, Ritual Expert
Power of Rituals for Women