I am still voiceless today so a few tweaks in my agenda to accommodate this status:
cruising OK
eating OK
improv not OK
movie watching OK
It is such a pleasant day out that we decided to walk across the street and take the one hour harbour cruise. It was a pleasant diversion, presenting the Toronto skyline from a different angle. The Toronto Island dock was closed for repairs so we were not able to stop off on the island today.
I had planned to run the Terry Fox Run today. It is my yearly 10 k run. Please excuse me though, as I am sick today and also hosting my parents. I do feel badly about missing this yearly event as I had another reason to run this year: my aunt Helen, who was like a big sister to me for many years, succumbed to a rare form of ovarian cancer this past year. That makes 4 family members that I run for each time I head out on the Terry Fox Run. For those of you who aren’t Canadians, let me tell you a bit about Terry Fox, someone who continues to inspire me. When he was still in his teens, he had a dream: to run across Canada using his one good leg and his one prosthetic leg the equivalent distance of a marathon each day to raise money for cancer research. This journey started in April 1980 and ended prematurely 5373 km later, about halfway across Canada, just outside Thunder Bay when it was discovered that his cancer had recurred. He died about a year later. Since then, many Canadians and even many in other countries continue his dream by running the Terry Fox Run, raising money for cancer research. The money raised has made a difference. Many cancer treatments have been discovered with the extra funding provided by the Terry Fox Foundation.
Improv is definitely not something you can participate in without a voice so I decided to skip class and attend the free screening of the People’s Choice Awarded film. This year, the prize went to ‘The King’s Speech’.
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