“PMC: The Right Words, At the Right Time”

Sometimes, the right words, heard or seen at the right moment, can make all the difference. If you say the right thing at the wrong time, your words will fall on deaf ears. Saying the wrong thing at any time, of course, is fruitless.

Last week's PMC update seems to have been the right words at the right time, at least for some people. I'm still a long way from my goal, but at least I don't feel quite as desperate as I did.

Look at what Apollo Lee wrote in his weblog today:

In order to give back to the community and support an extremely important organization that helps lots of people, I have decided to sponsor Seth Dillingham in his goal to ride in the Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research.

Lots of people wish him well, but I decided that it would be a good thing to contribute ten cents to his goal. For every mile on my chart. I have 4022.98 miles on my chart.

Whoo! Yay Apollo! Thank you!

If I'm really lucky, his words will produce similar results with at least one more person. To be honest, I'm not counting on it: all (well, almost all) of my sponsors are people who know me or Corinne. I can only think of two sponsors (in three years) beyond that first degree of separation: one of Duncan Smeed's former students, and the mother of a friend/former-employee/cancer-survivor.

Anyway, now I'm trying to talk Apollo into riding in the PMC next year! He's from CA, but last year there were a bunch of riders from CA, so the idea isn't as crazy as it sounds.