crop walk

I just returned from the crop walk. This year there were 8 of us that walked - 2 five year olds, 2 young moms, 3 teens and me. It was a beautiful day and we walked in downtown Columbus for 2 miles. I bet that we will have probably raised about $300 for this by the time we are done.
It was a beautiful day and there were lots of other people walking. The whole thing felt good.

Twenty years ago I was in charge of the Crop Walk in Zanesville. We walked 10 miles! And it was very up and down hills and all around the town. We had various churches on board that would provide snacks for us. Our youth group usually had about 15 kids who walked. And when it was all over we had a picnic at somebody's farm. An annual event.

We also did the crop walk in Bowling Green Ohio - all kinds of different ways of trying it. Walking in a park, walking through the town, walking in a circle at a school.

It is, of course, not about the walk - but a fund raiser. But I have to say that the great blessing for me has always been - no matter where I was - the conversations on the walk. And maybe moreso now. Listening to kids talk about the movies they watch and the books they read. And just having time and nothing else but walking and talking.

As I have gotten older, I am more and more resistent to participating myself in this stuff. but i am always grateful when I do.