The Syndicate

seeing if I can post here, to test if it's a thread issue or a site issue.

Yeah. You'll see the blood is never a landmark that you really want to be given in directions.

So, some of you know that I shaved my head last year and the year before to raise money for childhood cancer reasearch. I decided tonight that I'm doing it again in January. The St Baldricks Foundation directly funds childhood cancer research through grants, towards finding treatments and, possibly, a cure. Only 4% of all federal funding for all cancer research goes towards childhood cancers. 43 children a day are diagnosed with cancer in the US, 15,780 each year. About 1/3 of those children die within 30 years of diagnosis. None of that (or the other statistics) is ok.

The world is pretty broken right now. For those of us in the US, wherever you are on the political spectrum, we're in a place right now where there's a lot of brokenness. And we need to start to find healing. And that's what I'm trying to do.

This is a thing I can do to try to work towards making one thing a little bit more right, and to make things feel more symbolically right. I'd love it if some of you joined me and symbolically helped.

Cancer sucks. We can all agree on that. Give a little bit to help find treatments to help kids who are suffering from cancer and make their lives, and their families lives, a little bit better. And help bring a bit of healing to the world.

From my previous times doing this, the small donations are the ones that make the biggest impact--that sounds strange but it's true. Must of my money the first 2 times came from donations under $20 (although I certainly welcome larger donations).

https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/rabbiisa5777

And if you want to know why this is an issue that is of particular interest of me, visit this blog: http://supermansamuel.blogspot.com The writers are dear friends of mine. Bring tissues. Like, a case of them. It's a story of a family and a little 6 year old boy named Sammy who became a Super hero. Only his story didn't end like super hero stories are supposed to end. But, after that, he managed to make a big difference in the world, and his influence continues.

So, yeah. Go to the link above and if you considered donating, that would be awesome.

E and e: so sorry you had to go through the rough piece to get there, It so happy to see you have good to move towards. What amazing opportunity. Glad to see that thinks are working out!!! Sending additional blessings in your direction.