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Spring Rally 2012--Day 10
Activities starting for real and some really down time.
Most of our rally attendees have arrived and have set up their coaches, even though the rally does not actually begin until tomorrow evening. This has been a bit of a down day for me. This being Mother's Day everyone is in a mood of celebrating their wives and mothers. This just brought back the thought of losing both my mother and my wife this past year. At dinner tonight roses were handed out to the ladies and I was given a white one in honor of Joanne. It was all I could do not to burst into tears. Everyone here means well but most don't really know how to react or know what I'm going through.
A big help has been my friend Judy Wagner and her husband Forrest. Judy lost both of her parents this past year and is also trying to cope. with this. Tonight we had a pot luck dinner for all the folks who have come in early and I made sure to sit with the Wagner's. Judy and Joanne had become good friends during the last few rallies and she is very understanding of my situation.
Our club President and his wife, Gary and Caroll Granat, have also been a great help also this week. He has encouraged me to stay involved and busy with the club business and that has helped. I've got the club treasury records to maintain and will be giving my Treasurer's report to the membership during our business meeting later in the week. At that same meeting we'll have officer elections and a new Treasurer will be elected since I have decided to give up this position. I'll then spend some time transferring the records to the new Treasurer and helping that person to get up to speed with the accounts.
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You're not going to be Treasurer any more? Will you still enjoy going to the rallies if you don't have this job? Still, I'm probably going to quit several of my running club jobs this year. I've been involved with the committee for over 10 years now; time for someone else to step up.
I suppose the public presentation of the flower put you on the spot - in the spotlight as it were. On the other hand, I suppose they thought to ignore your losses would seem unkind as well. I'm not sure what you would have wanted them to do instead, but there is no way around the fact that this year is going to be tough. I gather that for many the subsequent year or two is also quite tough, because people forget and think you're over it all. Bummer, I know. I thought of you the other day when I read a saying. I can't remember the exact words, but it was something like 'Don't cry because it's gone; smile because it happened.'
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