i have the best friends.

as i mentioned in this post, a very dear friend passed away from lung cancer a year and half ago. i have since dedicated much of my free time to jill's legacy, an advisory board of the bonnie j. addario lung cancer foundation. though beating lung cancer for jill was a mission i took on for myself, friends who never even knew jill have taken it on as their own simply because they know it matters to me. case in point: a very best friend is engaged to a a guy named max. max happens to own the lumber baron, a redwood lumber yard in the east bay. max and i have become fast friends, and he is a presenting sponsor for the 2012 jog for jill. as if that wasn't enough, a few months ago max told me he would be willing to hang a jill's legacy banner at the lumber yard. i kind of thought it was one of those things that we would always talk about but would never happen. a few days ago though, i signed onto facebook to find a picture posted by jill's legacy with the caption,

Thanks to Lumber Baron Construction for hanging our Jill's Legacy banner outside of your office and for being a sponsor of the Berkeley Jog for Jill! See you on March 11th!

i couldn't believe he had actually made it happen. and that example? that's just one. i am a bridesmaid in that same very best friend's wedding, and she has somehow rallied her bridal party into jogging for jill in march.

and then there is roomie and good friend erika, who despite being unable to attend jog for jill, has talked it up enough to her water polo friends that they have started their own team.

those friends of mine have made something that is close to my number one priority right up their with their own priorities. so to that very best friend, max, erika, erika water polo friends and so so so so many others: thank you from the bottom of my heart. i am so lucky to have you as my friends.

(and to jilly up in heaven: we're doin it baby!!)

xo.