Our church sponsored a team in the Relay for Life cancer walk.  My wife and I walked in the opening Parade of Teams on Friday evening, and then again this morning at 3:30 and 6:30.  Our team was one of 80 entered, each keeping a walker on the track during the entire 24 hour event.  A walker above makes her way through an archway of balloons before 7 AM.  Our team sat through the night around a raised iron fire pit with cut-out stars and moons on it.  We watched one woman walk briskly through all the night hours, a glowing baton in her hand.  There is something quasi religious about an all-night vigil in search of healing, like the crowds that followed after Jesus hoping to touch the hem of his robe.  The event raised over $145,000 for cancer research.  Many of us registered for the CPS-3 cancer study too.  We had to fill out a medical questionnaire and give four vials of blood.  It’s odd to see someone in gloves handling your own blood; it goes from your body to a tube with a number on it.  They ran out of supplies and had to turn people away who wanted to join the study.