<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div> <font size="3">This update, penned on my birthday, prompted me to make one last DONATION on the eve<br />of reaching Washington, DC. Thank you, David, for giving me these "snapshots" of the<br />March along the way. You often speak of the lyrics of The Impossible Dream. After<br />becoming involved with the March through western PA, I can feel that sentiment you experienced<br />from time to time. I affirm your resolve. </font> <font size="3"><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where <br />madness lies? To surrender dreams - -this may be madness; to seek treasure <br />where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness! But maddest of <br />all - -to see life as it is and not as it should be."</span> ~<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000564/?ref_=tt_trv_qu" target="_blank"><span class="character">Miguel de Cervantes</span></a> Man of La Mancha<br /><br /><font size="6"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">http://climatemarch.org/donate-1/ </span></font> <br /></font></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px 0px;"></div><span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 10/31/14, <span>David Zahrt via Dialogue<<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:</span><div> </div><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">THU OCT 23</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> <u>UMC Parsonage,Breezewood to Alumni Assn Bldg, McConnelsburg, PA</u></span><br /><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial">We are throughthe Alleghenies and now in the Appalachian Mountains. It was either uphill ordownhill. There was nothing on the level. I would have walked my bike up thehills and worn out my brakes going downhill. So I confirmed with Doug that I could ride with him again. After Circle-up we stoppedat Quality Inn to pick up the baggage of the 4 women that slept at the motel.Kathy was the only one that needed a ride, so she rode in the cab with us. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial">Whenwe reached the Alumni Assn. building we were greeted by another Kathy. She wassubstitute teaching in the public school across the parking lot and was able totake time from her class to orient us. The building used to be a part of theschool system. She told us the history: they planned to demolish it; Lions Clubwanted to renovate it and found out it was too expensive; her father got thecommunity together and they bought and maintained it. She had keys to all theimportant rooms and opened them as we needed them. I put my bedroll up in acorner of the stage. The auditorium was enormous; it was used for 2 basketballcourts. There were foam-rubber pads that could be put down on the floor.</font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial"><br /></font></p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Therewas an All-Camp meeting that got started at 5:15pm. The Methodist Church, 5blocks away, was hosting a potluck dinner for us at 6pm. The March doesn’t getanything settled in 30 minutes so we stopped the meeting to go to the potluck.There were not many locals at the dinner table. Kat’s been joining and leavingthe March; she is back. At the end of dinner she ‘took the stage’ and announcedthat she wanted us to pick a partner and reflect on our March experience(s). I asked John Abbe, whowas sitting next to me, if we should be partners. He indicated he was leaving.When Kat gave the focus of our conversation, it was clear that she wasdenigrating Ed. </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px">She directed us to think “From Nope to Hope”.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> Several days earlier when someone put out an email suggestingthat we keep the Gear truck in WDC, Ed’s response started out with “Nope”. So Ileft and walked back to the Alumni Center with John A and Jeffrey.</span> </div></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br /></font><div><font color="#888888"></font><div dir="ltr"><font color="#888888">Peace, David</font></div></div></span></div></div><br /></div><br /><hr size="1" /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Dialogue mailing list<br /><a class="parsedEmailparsedEmail" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br /><a class="parsedLink" href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br /></div></div>