friend, author, and brain cancer warrior David Menasche.
He is participating in a fundraiser in a few weeks
and we are helping him sound the call!
Here are David's own words....
"On August 10 Voices Against Brain Cancer is hosting their annual run/walk against cancer to raise money to fund research to find a cure. I will be going to New York to participate in the event I will be doing the 5 miles (albeit in a wheelchair) and trying to help with the fundraising. Please help me to help them find cure so I will be the last person to suffer from this disease! Please contribute what you can and share the link. Thank you kindly!"
Clinton and I are thinking of ways to continue the site
in order to help support other Brain Tumor
survivors
as well as other Pearl Jam fans battling major
illnesses in their lives.
It just feels right!
Clinton heads in for his routine MRI at the end of this
month!
Lightning Bolt will be the music of choice this go round he says!
Today I wanted to bring some information to you
about another Friend fighting a Brain Tumor....
you may have heard of him - or you may not...
David Menashce has just
published a book called
The Priority List...
We are very excited for David!
This is the summary Amazon
gives for the book to give you a good idea
of what it's all about
"Based on a beloved teacher’s most popular lesson, The Priority List is a bold, inspirational story of learning, love, and legacy that challenges us to ask: What truly matters in life?
David
Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His
passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and
sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them
through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons.
When
a six-year battle with brain cancer ultimately stole David’s vision,
memory, mobility, and—most tragically of all—his ability to continue
teaching, he was devastated by the thought that he would no longer have
the chance to impact his students’ lives each day.
But teaching
is something Menasche just couldn’t quit. Undaunted by the difficult
road ahead of him, he decided to end his treatments and make life his
classroom. Cancer had robbed him of his past and would most certainly
take his future; he wouldn’t allow it to steal his present. He turned to
Facebook with an audacious plan: a journey across America— by bus, by
train, by red-tipped cane—in hopes of seeing firsthand how his kids were
faring in life. Had he made a difference? Within forty-eight hours of
posting, former students in more than fifty cities replied with offers
of support and shelter.
Traveling more than eight thousand
miles from Miami to New York, to America’s heartland and San Francisco’s
Golden Gate, and visiting hundreds of his students, David’s fearless
journey explores the things we all want and need out of life—family,
security, independence, love, adventure—and forces us to stop to
consider our own Priority List."
WOW!
Right?!!!
Living with a Brain Tumor or cancer is not just about
all the medical terms and surgeries and chemo...
there is a person still attached to the disease.
While here at Seeking Stone Gossard
we want to help shed light on Brain Tumor research,
funding, and awareness.
We also want to help tell the stories of the people
