Mike says “don’t talk about it, be about it”.  Michael is a SURVIVOR. A drunken drive home changed his life/our lives FOREVER but it was no accident.  There is a message, a cause, a reason that he is Traumatic Brain Injury SURVIVOR. The 5K is on!  

Mark your calendars - (after we get approval)

Saturday October 18, 2008

You are a group of VERY talented people and I am humbly and respectfully asking for your help.  I know nothing about planning an event of this magnitude but I am learning, thanks to Karl’s sister Ellyn. Ellyn is an event planner and has generously volunteered her services from afar to help guide the way.

Ellyn sent a packet to get things rolling and I now have 5 HUGE very detailed steps to follow to make this very important event a success.  I will need your support in every way - as we get closer I’ll need your experience, contributions of service, advertising, sponsorship, we’ll need t-shirts, bib #’s, banners, fliers, posters, a DJ, in addition to Mike we’ll need a local celebrity to speak, etc., etc., etc.

BUT FIRST….we need a name for the event.  What’s in a name? EVERYTHING! I’m going to start a discussion on the blog’s Forum section for your thoughts and suggestions for a name for this 5K.  Mike would like to call it “The Journey of Miracles 5K” and perhaps that’s what it will be but with just a few queries on Google, we’ve seen that maybe this isn’t so original.  Let’s get busy.  Let’s get creative. Let’s “be about it”. 

AND THEN…we need a route in the City…AND THEN… Approval …and then, and then….!

I know we can make this happen…

Sydney Gambini Jones shared a poem with Mike today that she thought was very fitting - Michael loved it and is quoting it already. Thank you for your intuitiveness Sydney.

xxoo