Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2008. It is truly hard to believe that about two months later, Mattie was diagnosed with cancer. In this photo, you see Mattie holding a glass jar. It wasn't just any jar, it was our caterpillar jar. Literally each spring, Mattie would bring home tent moth caterpillars from school. The first year he did this, I had a steep learning curve. As I did not know what tent moth caterpillars ate or how to really house them until they transformed into moths. But we figured it out and quickly learned that the only leaves around us these fellows ate, were oak! I am not sure what Mattie loved more..... the metamorphosis process or our moth release celebration on the deck.
Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.
- Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 33,217,582
- Number of people who died from the virus: 593,276
It is 10:30pm, and I have focused all day, again, on the Walk. I can safely say that every acknowledgment letter has been either emailed or mailed, raffle prizes and top walker prizes were mailed, and my focus this week has been to create a Walk video and to begin to flesh out the June newsletter. I am in a panic to get this done, because we leave for Boston on Saturday. We will be visiting with Peter's parents and I am also going to Martha's Vineyard for a few days with friends while I am there. When we return from Boston, we close on the house on June 9th and then we leave for a trip to South Carolina two days later. June is a total whirlwind, which is why I knew I had to address all Walk issues now.
I have created a lot of videos for the Foundation, but this Walk video has taken me a long time to develop. Perhaps it is because I am tired! I am not sure, but a virtual event requires a great deal of organization with communications, step counts, and photographs. Given that this is our second year doing this, I knew I had to develop a better process this year for tracking postings coming into us from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. As photos came in, I labeled them with the person's name and state they represented. It made it a lot easier for me to organize photos, but still there is no way of getting around the storyboard layout for the video. It just takes time, and more time!
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