Wow! I got in! More about my 60th birthday!

Hi everyone! It's taken me a looong time to figure out how to log into my own blog. This should be no surprise to those who have read my other messages. Whatever!
The good news is that my 60th birthday is coming up in less than a month on August6. It's the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hirshima.
It's both a celebration and a time to reflect on how we can make the world a better place. As you know, I love to run, and I'm committed to nuclear disarmament. So for my 60th birthday, I'm asking--inviting--encouraging--begging--pleading, doing whatever it takes, to get you to move. Please move. Please walk, run, garden, make love, swim, sculpt, do anything you can. Be grateful for your body. And give money to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS). We're a group of Canadians, part of a larger group of physicians and others, and together, they've won a Nobel Peace Prize for their work. Then tell us, via this blog, what you did. Be a part of the community building.
My goal is to raise $6000 for my 60th birthday. As importantly, while you move your body, bring your mind with you. Think about peace. Think about what happened in Hiroshima, in Nagisaki. Think about a world without nuclear weapons. Then, please, please, join us in community by sharing what you think and feel on this blog.
We're organizing a number of events for the weekend of Aug. 6 - 8. More on that later. Mostly I want to encourage everyone outside of the Burlington area to think about what you would like to do. Do you want to join others? Go for a hike with a friend? Do something by yourself that's meaningful to you. Do you want to challenge yourself to achieve a goal? Do you want to relax and feel peaceful? It's all good.
I know I'm not the only one out there who thinks better when I move. Have some fun with it, because we need to connect with all of ourselves in order to have world peace.
I've learned so much already from trying to do this. I truly believe the world is one family. But I let myself get bogged down for a month, not able to log onto the blog, and I didn't ask for help from my friends as PGS, or from others that could have made this easy. If I really trusted my family, I wouldn't have segmented them off, I would have known they were there for me, and would have given me the help I needed, or found it for me. I'm asking others to come forward and trust that we can find a way to live together in peace, and I still have a ways to go myself. So it's a humbling experience. I know, though, that being on the path, that continuing to take one step at a time, however stumbly, is how the human race moves forward.
I believe that the human race is one family, and that this isn't some far-out hippie naive idea. I've been reading a scary book, The Hundredth Monkey, and one sentence says something like this: Nuclear bombs are not the solution to any problem. They are a bigger problem than any problem that they are trying to solve. Amen.
So having atomic weapons is like shooting yourself in the foot. Using them is like shooting yourself in the arm. Or the heart. Or the head. It's all bad.
There are a million good causes out there, and this is one of them. I try not to think of life as this or that. Many times it can be this and that. So if nuclear disarmament isn't your pet project, how about supporting me, and there's a good chance I'll support you. I'm hoping to have 60 people donate $100, or 100 people donate $60. Or a whole whack of people donate what they can or want to donate, and all the better.
I'm looking forward to seeing who's going to be the brave person to be the first to reply. Most of my friends and family are over 50, so here's the challenge: if I can do this, so can you! Show the love! What do you think of this idea so far? Let me know I'm being heard.
In faith and love,
Ginny