bike planning and weyman johnson

So in the midst of craziness around here preparing for our upcoming Bike MS Tour (really, it's nuts - stuff everywhere. The big rider check-ins are this Saturday and next week we load pallets/trucks for the event), yesterday we had an all National MS Society conference call. Today is the first day of our 2010 fiscal year and so this was the 'eve.' Weyman Johnson, our national board chair, spoke for quite some time and some things really stuck with me. His belief that life is about luck: good luck and bad luck. That people living with MS know that more than anyone. That even though we're not your grandmother's MS Society anymore,  that people living with severe MS are STILL feeling helpless, and maybe hopeless. Regardless of all the advances in science that the Society has helped fund in the past years (an exciting oral therapy coming about soon!). He said many more words, obviously, but I can't remember them all. He called himself 'unswervable' which I love. The whole call renewed my determination - paired with some things Joyce Nelson said at the Challenge Walk. Like her sentiments about us all being in this movement as a team, and there being no option to leave any team member behind. I'm not doing a very good job of explaining what exactly in Weyman's words moved me, but it did. Even though sometimes I feel alone in this effort... like the people around me occasionally lose sight of the mission... I know we're a team. We'll get there. We have to.