Breast Cancer Awareness
There are a lot of events occurring simultaneously in October as my friend Doug Robertson has noted on Current Events Watch. I’ve been discussing Domestic Violence for the past couple of days, but October is also Breast Cancer Awareness month. Breast cancer touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year. Since 1996, Lee National Denim Day has raised more than $66 million for the fight against breast cancer. At 451 Press we’re having a “comfortable” day of blogging on October 5. This means that several of us are taking a break from our normal focus in order to write about whatever suits our fancy.
I have decided to write about one of my favorite novels, Mutiny on the Bounty. I had planned on flying off to Tahiti or perhaps Pitcairn Island in order to conduct some research on this topic, but that might melt the plastic in my wallet. Ouch. So I’ll have to use my imagination. What a tortuously difficult decision those seamen must have faced on that fateful journey to the South Pacific…
Well here comes Fletcher Christian and he’ll want to know where I stand. Hmmm, how shall I proceed? Do I stay here in a tropical paradise where the half naked locals treat me like a prince? Or do I cast off with Captain Bligh back to England where it’s dreary and cold and the local tax collector has just moved in next door? What a terrible dilemma.
You see I don’t really wish to mutiny. It wouldn’t be good for my reputation. Can’t we just say I was marooned here accidentally or left to watch over his majesties’ breadfruit plantation? I’ll even leave a note to my fiancé.
Dearest Prudence:
As it happens, my tour of duty has been extended this go round. Now I know that you must be frightfully discouraged by this unfortunate news, as am I. Rest assured that I shall fondly look forward to the day when I might touch your lovely face again.
Yours Very Truly
Reginald
Here are links to other 451 Press blogs participating in National Denim Day:
Find Religion
Reality on Bravo
Get Incensed
About Honolulu, HI
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October 6th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Well, I’d probably have sided with Fletcher and set sail with him at the wheel. Might even have volunteered to give Bligh’s dinghy a shove into the unknown. But that’s just me.