Last night was spent doing the Mississippi Shuffle which is the Red Wing version of the American Cancer Society all-night walk to raise money for cancer research etc. Our team, Pretties in Pink, captained by Jen who was sadly home with some sort of intestinal bug, persevered without her. Red Wing's Baypoint Park, along the Mississippi was home to approximately 20 teams (I'm really bad at estimating so might be way off), at least 1000 luminaries, several campfires, tents, music, Native American drumming, fireworks and hundreds of walkers. Add in boats, a couple of barges and the Delta Queen-which is a massive paddle wheeler-it was a festive night.
But, as always, its the names on the bags of the luminaries, and the names of those in our hearts and minds, that we think about as we do our laps around park. There is no six degrees of separation with cancer.
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