BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 05:45 AM

Okay, one going out from Denmark this afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: RangerSteve
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 09:46 PM

A few from New Jersey will go out in a few days.

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: Alba
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 09:05 PM

Oky doky Linda.

A few on the way from Cape Cod and Point Judith.
Emailing some buddies around this wee planet who I know will be more than happy to send a postie or two to Marc.
Wonderful idea by the way.
My Best to You Linda and to Marc of course.
With Love,
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:59 PM

REFRESH

Where are you Catters?!?!?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:06 PM

Thank you, everyone. Beer mats would be MOST appropriate also! I meant to originally say that Ellen is Marc's "dancing partner" - don't want to be misleading.

At the dance weekend Ellen also had a blank book and lots of colored pens at the registration table. Anyone who wanted to, filled out a page of good wishes/things they'd learned. And there were some beautiful sketches and poems too. Very nice to read. I'll let Ellen know there are postcards coming.

Appreciatively, Linda

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:06 PM

Great idea. One will be coming from Quebec.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: ranger1
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 07:31 PM

I'm in.

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:37 PM

Can we send beer mats???? SINSULL has lots of them! hee hee

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:41 PM

Where did my post go??????
Antique post cards to go out tomorrow.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:16 PM

Lymphoma is a bitch!

I'll get on this. Several Lymphoma folks in our parish will too, I bet.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 04:19 PM

I could manage one of a Wyoming Designated Driver.....dog on the saddle in front of cowboy.

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 04:05 PM

what a neat idea, Linda! I will be sure to send a couple from Colorado in the next day or two.

Subject: RE: BS: Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 03:56 PM

Let's keep this thread up there, OK?

Subject: BS: A Request for Postcards from Mudcatters
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 12:50 PM

Marc Shepanek is a swing (and other) dance teacher in the Washington DC area, and a terrific guy. He's recently been sick with lymphoma, and though doing well under treatment, really needs a lift to the heart.

A couple of weeks ago Marc was to have been teaching nearby at a contra/swing/tango weekend with his partner, Ellen Engle, but he was having chemotherapy. Ellen taught alone, and suggested to all Marc's students and fans attending the workshops that we send, and have other people send him postcards – preferably from far away places and unsigned, or signed by people Marc doesn't even know. She thinks receiving this flood of weird postcards would cheer him up enormously.

I thought, "Well, there's this bunch of far-flung folk I could ask to do this……"

One thing Marc stresses in his extremely funny and enjoyable classes is taking care of your partner. And while dancing if you goof up, he invites you not to take the blame yourself but you can always say "Marc made a mistake".

Marc is a psychologist and chief of aerospace medicine at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. His work is with enabling human missions to extreme environments, in particular interplanetary exploration. He studies group dynamics, adaptation to isolation and positive psychology.

If anyone would like to send him a postcard, please send it to:

Marc Shepanek
Flying Feet Enterprises
4408 Faraday Pl NW
Washington DC 20016
USA

Thank you   --Linda