Two Days in a Row!

I know, get excited.

Well today was a high and low kind of day. First...work. We started boxing up documents which was exciting for me because I like looking at people's personal letters that they chose to keep for years and years. Also, I knew exactly what the end product should be for once. Yay! But as we went along I grew to have a much better appreciation for the librarians who put together manuscript boxes like this on large scale projects. It was so hard to figure out how to categorize that stuff! Of course, then we just completely ran out of folders and had to stop before we even made it to the lunch break.

You will remember yesterday I mentioned a newspaper article. Well it came out today and when we went by to pick up copies we discovered not only were we in the paper. We were the front page story. Yes people, that's how small this town is. I made the front page for cataloging the museum at the historical society. Kind of cool to be sure, but totally unexpected and not entirely desired since I had not been expecting pictures that day and did not look my best. C'est la vie.

The bad news today was that a kid I went to high school with lost his fight with cancer yesterday. Now I'm not going to be that jerk who sits here and and claims we were good friends and that a piece of my life is missing now, but he was still some one I knew, even if barely, and I find myself strangely shaken by the whole thing. He should have been getting ready to start his life in the real world like the rest of us are. It kills me that so many people are lost to this disease. It's been my cause since I was old enough to have one to fight cancer and support research. Here is my little plea to you. Please please please. Too many people are lost to this. It doesn't take much, but try to find anyway you can to support the cause. There are constantly charities trying to raise money, looking for volunteers, looking for a word of encouragement. I'm not asking you to dedicate your lives to it. But give one second, one dollar, one word. If everybody just donated one, imagine how much they would have. Imagine how many lives would be saved. No one would ever have to live having lost a loved one to cancer again. That is my dream world and I ask you to just try to find something you can do to make it at least part of your dream world too.

That's my lecture for the day. But always remember that the little things in life are what matter most and what you may find you miss someday. Don't take anything for granted.