Posted 9/12/24
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. -Gal 6:9
Part of me would love to quit every job and volunteer endeavor I do and just write Digital Cornbread posts all day long. I mean that, friends. You are that valuable to me. Sadly, though, there is no such thing as universal basic richness, so I have to work….a lot.
I guess I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate each of you that read and share and comment on my posts. I know a decent chunk of the 12,000 subscribers here are bots and folks in response farms and the like, but I rest in the fact that there are many who are real folks struggling that I can help through this little cornbread table. 🙂
I want to encourage you to become a cornbread cook too. You really don’t have to write fancy. You don’t have to be super well-read on the topics. Just get started…and write. It has been a tremendous catharsis for me the last 6-7 years to share these windmill tilting, ups and downs. There have been days when I had very few people with whom to converse and vent to. That being said, I recommend you separate your venting time from your reflection time. Warn the reader that a venting session is coming and let them choose to read or hold off. I can tell you, as someone who internalizes other’s pain that I can only handle so much. Hence why I spend VERY little time on social media dementia pages…it becomes tooooo much quickly. I am the perfect Venn diagram of someone who internalizes other’s pain and am a fixer at the same time. Therefore, I hurt when they hurt and want too much to fix it instead of focusing on being a life-giving ear. It is a daily struggle to catch myself in that realm, and I am getting better, but I am a work in progress.
If you want to start a blog and need help, give me a buzz. I am NOT a website developer, but I play one on TV and can point you in some right directions. 🙂
Shifting gears:
(Image by Pexels from Pixabay)
We have made it to Walk to End Alzheimer’s season. I will be attending the Joplin, MO Walk Saturday, most likely the Lake of the Ozarks Walk the next Saturday, and our own biggie in Springfield the 28th. It is likely I won’t have time for much in the way of blog posts, but please know this: You are valuable to me like a precious jewel. Thank you soooo much. You are more appreciated than I could ever express.
It has been a tough year. Now we celebrate fo a couple of months as we eagerly await the pipeline of treatments to bear fruit. 🙂
Keep Tiltin’ Windmills with me. 🙂 The best here is yet to come.
#EndALZ
Donate to any, all, or none of these, but they all go to the same end….to slay this dementia dragon once for all. Forever.
Joplin Walk this Saturday morning 9/14/24:
https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=14575499&fr_id=17740
Lake of the Ozarks Walk on Disco Day morning 9/21/24
https://act.alz.org/site/TR?px=14575499&pg=personal&fr_id=17734
Our wonderful, amazing, fantabulous Springfield Walk 9/28/24 morning (Sorry…I am on the Walk committee, so I am a little biased…but I know it will be great! :
https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=14575499&fr_id=17732
Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn’t give you the link to next year’s Longest Day/ Runnin’ Til I’m Purple event!
2025 Longest Day Page:
https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=14575499&fr_id=18274
Consider this dementia dragon a goner if I have anything to do with it! 🙂
For those who have made it this far in the blog, I would like your opinion of me adding an ongoing personal travel donation link. I drive approximately 8-10k miles per year extra to do clinical trial work and stay at least 8-10 nights in (sometimes cheapie) hotels. Currently I pay everything out of pocket. I funnel any small stipends I get from studies back into the travel expense, but they typically cover about 1/3 of the cost. I am not a non-profit organization and can’t funnel my work through my employer who is one because I don’t want to have restrictions on my words caused not by them but by funding sources who do not approve Christian blogs.
Idea: I may soon make a non-profit entity to make these donations deductive, but for now they are not.
Would it make me look like I am in this thing for personal gain if I do this? Would it be better to create the non-profit so I can be required to be even more transparent than merely posting every receipt? Your opinions are coveted! 🙂 Mark.applegate@senioragemo.org or text/call me at 417-955-2513. Thanks y’all! 😉
