{"id":219,"date":"2010-01-22T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/01\/zen-and-service-follow-up-pink-for-port\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:16:00","slug":"zen-and-service-follow-up-pink-for-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/01\/zen-and-service-follow-up-pink-for-port.html","title":{"rendered":"Zen and Service Follow Up: Pink for Port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Several readers expressed themselves and seemed to connect with my quandary posted about a month ago regarding my trying to connect with a young guy at work (click here for that post<\/a>). It led to the reflections and webinar on Zen and Service (click here for that<\/a>).<\/span><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m happy to report that this same young guy <\/span>just organized a \u201cWear Pink for Port\u201d day after spreading the false rumor that I didn\u2019t have hair because I\u2019ve been a chemo kid and after many years the cancer was going to my head. A bunch of young people came to school in pink yesterday, some that forgot fashioned a pink \u201cP\u201d from paper and stuck it to their shirts. Very moving in a strange kinda way.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\n

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