mi prima, a hero

My cousin Veronica will probably kill me when she realizes

1. I have this website and didn’t tell her
2. I used this picture to make my point in this post

My last entry posed a question: what inspires you?  I noted feeling very lucky to be so inspired by so many things, and she is one of them.

I am so incredibly proud of my cousin, Veronica Alfaro-Young.  Unfortunately she lives too many miles away from me, so we only partake in wackiness like this picture roughly once a year.  She is a DJ at Tampa’s country music station WQYK and helps drive/advocate a number of different charitable efforts locally, including Meals on Wheels and Brides Against Breast Cancer.

This past Halloween weekend, she logged 180 lifetime miles raising money to help find a cure for breast cancer through her participation in the annual Breast Cancer 3-Day.  I was so moved by her personal reflection this year that I may have emailed everyone I know asking to help her reach her goal, and she did.

Veronica is an everyday hero to me, and she’s inspired me to set a goal for myself.  When she does the breast cancer 3-day this year, I want to join her.  This will necessitate a lot of hard work on my part, but it’s a worthy cause that will benefit me to get involved with by sheer virtue of the training and preparation that needs to take place throughout this year.

Good Link Karma:
The Breast Cancer Site, click to help give free mammograms
The 3-Day Site
Susan G. Komen Foundation
BreastCancer.org
National Breast Cancer Foundation