Great blog Jimbo - the best yet.  

Nothing reaches out to people more than touching the human spirit - certainly helps me stay grounded and in touch with how fragile reality can be at times.  

I met the genzyme social responsibility go-get guy yesterday.  Now most people think "green" and a few charities...wrong...how about teaching kids to read, giving free medicine where they can, actively encouraging employees to engage in charitable activities to help their communities outside of work...the list goes on and on.  That's why they, like so many, gave such great support on the Children's hospital walk the other week.

Here's another inspirational story - and as you say, kind of puts it into perspective...

news.bbc.co.uk/.../8112548.stm

Folks....Jim Munroe is amazing...let me tell you about the first trick he did for me...

We went for dinner at the apartment, the first time I'd met Jim. I was sitting across from him at the dinner table. After the meal, a new deck of cards appear. Jim begins to shuffle them (which is impressive enough) and in the mean time is asking me whether I beliveve things are planned or random in life. I said random, at whilch point he sits the cards down and asks me to shuffle them. I do my best shuffling then he asks me to sit the cards down and cut them. I do this and discard the other half. I shuffle them again and Jim asks me to count out 10 cards face down. After doing this, Jim picks up the 10 cards and begins to count through them one at a time. AT any point I can say "switch", which will take the top card at the time and put it on the bottom. We do this a few times. Jim asks me to pick up the 10 cards now and lay them out in a row, face up.

Whilst looking at this set of random numbers, he says "so your definatley still a random guy" to which I replied, "yes". He continued, "cool, cause in front of us we have a random 10 digit number that you shuffled, cut, shuffled and switched. Some times when I like at a sequence of ten numbers it reminds me of a phone number"...

And with that, I realised that the random number on the table was my US mobile phone number! I was truly blown away.

Si

Thanks for sharing your story guys.  I was moved reading it.

My friend back home just told me her 6yr old daughter has been diagnosed with aplasmic anaemia.  Basically she has no immune system and is seriously ill.  Why do these things happen to good people....that's for another discussion.

We are all inspired by people who overcome adversity in life because we can all relate to that.  Let's just not get caught up too much in our own importance...."do you know who I am" and have some humility, enjoy life and share our successes!

Lx