I’m home from the Promise Walk. I want to get all my thoughts down now so I can do something on it during the announcements in church next week so I guess I’ll do my normal method of post-mortem on this event.

The Good
[+] A good weekend with my parents.
[+] Getting to have coffee with Rebecca.
[+] Perfect weather — it was cloudy which meant that the morning was cool.
[+] Excellent speakers. The mission family was one who had lost a baby at 35 weeks. The doctor who came to speak was excellent. He referenced the Downton Abbey episode where Sybil dies of eclampsia and talked about the changes in the last 100 years.
[+] A chance to go walk on the creek trail where we used to walk in high school and where my parents found their Maine Coon cat.
[+] A decent shirt this year.

The Bad
[+] Being woefully out of shape due to being sick for so long.
[+] Blisters from my shoes.
[+] My legs and back are killing me.
[+] Poison oak along the trail.
[+] The kid who crashed his bike into the back of my leg… and didn’t apologize. (His mom did but he didn’t.)

The Hopeful
[+] Raising almost $20,000 which can fund a study on preeclampsia.