Teams of four walked 100 kms to raise money for a charity. They walked fromO Odawara in Kanagawa to the shores of Lake Yamanaka in Yamanashi.

This is way cool in my book. There is nothing like expending all of your energy for a cause bigger than you. What’s more, I want to take full credit for this activity. Surely, I can’t. But…I took a group of students for 100 km charity walks back in the 1980s. I remember nearly killing one student. Gocho-kun keeled over at about 65 kilometers. He rolled around in the middle of the street shaking uncontrollably from the cold. He survived. Nobody threw me in jail or fired me from my teaching position. We went on to do 10 more of those charity walks…all around Niigata prefecture where I lived at the time.

I wonder if any of the kids in this picture or any of the walkers have any ties with any of the 100s of walkers that participated in our events some 20 years ago.

No matter….they are doing things bigger than themselves for others beside themselves. And THAT brings joy to life.

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