It's time to do what community does best--come together to support a beloved member when they need us most. What started for Amy as a tiny, barely detectable speck on a routine mammogram became a bigger concern when neighboring extracted lymph nodes also showed cancer cells. October should have been a celebration of Amy successfully launching her two brilliant boys into their new lives away from home and starting graduate school herself. Instead, it's been months of scary news and hard conversations and contemplations.

Ahead is at least 6 months of chemotherapy and supportive therapeutics and unfortunately Amy has been advised not to continue work in her high-contact grade school environment during treatment. So, please, let's all do what we can to buoy Amy during this time in all the ways available to us--financial, practical, emotional and spiritual. Amy is one of the toughest women I know, I'm sure you all agree. She's already met this challenge with her inherent graceful spirit, seemingly finding even more wattage in her phenomenal smile and laugh. Thank goodness for her HEARTy stock. And have you seen the new hairdo she is rocking!

There will be many ways to support her in the coming months but the most essential for her full attention to healing will be easing the financial burden. Share with any and all who might want to contribute. Collectively we are powerful, a real testament to how love can mend what ails us and offer a soft place to land in helpful hands.