Dear Wisdome, Tonight we found out that Run for Life Haiti will run in front of our house and Gabriela's school on Thursday morning around 9 AM. Run for Life Haiti is Barry McDonald running 12 marathons across Haiti to raise money for a new larger maternity centre of Heartline Haiti. Heartline is the long-standing organization in working in lower Port au Prince, Haiti whose midwives helped Niko be born in 2009. Heartline was just opening it's first birthing centre then. Since Niko, many many babies have been born at Heartline (77 babies were born in 2012) and hundreds of mothers have received pre and post natal care at Heartline. You might be born at Heartline too but...it's seriously not time for that yet. In the meantime, I signed us up to run with Barry from our house to Gabriela's school. It's 2 km! I'm totally psyched.
Heartline had a vision that's it's running to achieve. Martin Luther King had a dream. Barry had a vision of running across Haiti. Having a vision or dream is an important, beautiful, and grounding tool for living a good life. It can be anything from improving maternal health, climbing a mountain, learning to speak Khmer, helping children read, knitting a sweater, forgiving someone, reversing climate change, fighting against racism, qualifying for the special olympics, making the best banana creme pie, building a bicycle from scratch, writing a book, getting off drugs or discovering new ones. As long as you believe in it, it won't matter how hard it is, or what anyone else thinks. Can't wait to run with you.
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