The race is just 10 days away and most everything is in order. Last order of business is getting shirts printed. The design is complete and the printing process has begun. Thanks to Rubber Duck Creative for the great work on the website. Anything relative to creative, or graphics, Rich Harpel produced, and what exceptional work.
Means a good deal to me that lots of friends are coming in from out of town, all of whom knew Kieron well. I consider these friends family. They are sacrificing a weekend at their home in another state to come be a part of Kieron's foundation. Kieron would have thought this was pretty cool, that's for sure.
Emma is 21 months now and will be involved in the race. I'll be pushing her in a jogging stroller...now everyone has a chance to beat me this year, maybe.
MF, out
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Kieron Go Bragh is Gaelic for "Kieron Forever". The Kieron Go Bragh Foundation is a charity that supports brain diseases, primarily forms of dementia, especially Pick's Disease. This is the terminal disease that my brother Kieron battles. For more information visit www.kierongobragh.com
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When I learned that Kieron had Pick’s disease last fall, I was heart sick. For several nights, I dreamed of him and during the day thought about how the lives of our families have intertwined for 40 years now. It might be a cliché, but I do believe our lives are like tapestries and we weave meaning and memories into each other with every encounter.
The Finnegan threads are all bold, bright colors written on my life ~ Kelly greens and vivid reds and oranges. The strands are concentrated in patches in my early years, and then the stitches become fewer but still bright spots sprinkled over time. Kieron’s thread is sturdy and true, and although it’s vibrancy may be fading, it is present and always will be.
In our ‘70s world, Kieron was the boy we all dreamed of growing up and marrying ~ the Catter girls and Ann Ballew and Anna Hogue and cute little Mimi Terry who lived in the duplex beside the Finnegans on Dalewood. He was kind, polite and handsome, an elusive knight in our neighborhood kingdom. He was our Davy Jones, our Keith Partridge, our Greg Brady, even our Gomez Adams.
Kieron and I were both born in 1961, and we shared classes at Dan D. Rogers Elementary School. In the early ‘80s our lives would overlap again at SMU. He was always the first one to arrive at our class in the basement of Dallas Hall and sometimes we would chat for a few minutes before class began.
I don’t have many specific memories of Kieron, he just seems to be ingrained in the fabric of our collective childhood ~ trick-or-treating, leaf forts, family barbecues, bike rides through the neighborhood and games of hide & go seek. A photograph records a dozen neighborhood children fishing in the boat house at White Rock Lake, led by our own Pied Piper Mike Finnegan.
Every marriage, birth and milestone brings us all together. We share both joy and sorrow. I am privileged to join with Kieron’s friends and family to honor him and to raise money for research for Pick’s disease. These new, intentional threads will also be woven into our collective history.
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