Thanks to One and all for a great Sunday!

Thanks to one and all for the One Episcopal Sunday. We collected more than 140 letters to public officials asking them to support efforts to alleviate world poverty. We also collected an offering for the Anglican Communion's work in Zimbabwe, and I heard many commitments to attend the IMPACT meeting on affordable housing Monday March 30.

We don't have to do everything. But you proved we can do something.

Tomorrow we will be in Washington DC and will be lighting a candle in memory of my father, David Richardson, at the Lincoln Memorial at a vigil for Alzheimer's victims. Please light a candle tomorrow night for him and all the people you know suffering from this awful disease. And please visit my dad's page at the Alzheimer's Association, and sign the guest book. You can find the page by clicking HERE.

And, yes, we will have the Monday Funnies tomorrow!

Light a candle with us for my dad

Next Monday evening (March 23), Lori and I plan to join a candlelight vigil on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for victims of Alzheimer's Disease. My dad, David, died of Alzheimer's five years ago, and we are doing this as a tribute to him. 

Did you know that more than 5 million people in America live with Alzheimer's every year? Their families care for them as best they can, and many, like my dad end up in a nursing home or a hospital as they lose all of their mental faculties.  It is truly "the long goodbye" and for us it was the most difficult, awful ordeal we have endured as a family.

You can join us at this vigil without leaving your home by "lighting a candle" on the Alzheimer's Association website. We've set up a special memorial page in memory of my dad. You can find it by clicking HERE, and you can donate on-line in his memory so that this cruel disease might yet be eradicated. And please sign the guest book on the memorial page.

Thank you so much!