What a beautiful and loving birthday week I have had thus far. From my friends visiting to family coming over this weekend. The text messages, cards, phones calls, care packages you name it, I have been so blessed. To know that in some form I have touched someone through the years and they are reaching back out. What love!

To have been fortunate to experience for the most part so much compassion from strangers by being bald. To the perfect stranger at Olive Garden that said, “you are beautiful”. Or to the men that know actually open the door! Yes, there are some people that don’t know how to react or even say the wrong thing, but those are far less the compassionate ones. So this brings me to what I call “Project Baldness.”

I ask each and everyone of you that reads this blog to stop and think before we speak. We live in a society that we must accept all our differences but we are intolerant to each other’s opinions or beliefs. What we need as a society is to go back to basics. Yes basics, RESPECT!

The next time some one upsets you or you are ready to flip off the guy who cut you off. Think that they are bald! Think that they are battling something so great that you can’t even imagine.

Let’s take it to another level. Purchase a bald cap. Yes, I saw they are selling bald caps in support of cancer. Walk around with it and see the compassion you get from strangers. Feel the love that one person can give by simply saying “you are beautiful” or “feel better”! Put down your guards and be compassionate. Don’t wait till someone is diagnosed with cancer or the next big natural disaster. Live today and everyday with compassion for one another. Maybe just maybe you brighten someone else’s day or stoped that one person from hurting themselves.

Cancer is teaching me a lot! And my hope is that I can share what I am learning and somehow make a difference!

Go Project Baldness! I am blessed! I Got this!