What follows here is an email in its entirety from one Sally Reed of Cypress Mills, TX. Sally is a “volunteer” fixture within the Lance Armstrong Foundation and can always be found on the Challenge’s finish lines handing out roses to survivors. Last week Sally was in Philadelphia for 07’s first LanceArmstrongChallenge and awaiting our large shipment of yellow roses fresh in from Quito, Ecuador via Miami. A mechanical failure on a FedEx jet saw the roses in Virginia and eventually in New Jersey. Every place but Phily! A very hard days work from Flowerbud and FedEx finally saw the roses offloaded from the failed aircraft and privately couriered to Phily in the middle of the night where Sally was waiting to prepare thousands of roses.
I might add this is a delight to publish in light of the prior posting and the miserable soul that prompted it. I really do like this job!!
Dearest of Dear people, Mark Hayes, Marcy and Andrea of Flowerbud.com, and now our new precious
Marcy of Fed Ex…and everyone in the continuum that put their hearts and
souls into this “Happening”:I don’t even have the words to tell all of you the impact of what your
concerted efforts brought about but I will tell you some stories: (more…)