Everybody’s Rodeo Cup of Tea
This is rodeo night for Circle of Friends, a time when everyone does everything with the help of Stripes the Clown, Miss Moo and Howdy. Everyone will wear a bandana, and many students will come in chaps and cowboy hats. I’m going to take a wranglers rope looped over the handles of my wheelchair. Can’t wear a cowboy hat since my headrest knocks it off, but I do have boots and jeans. There will be bean bag toss, face painting, cookie decorating, dancing, a petting table for the rabbits, and did I say dancing the Macarena? At the end we come up with the world’s largest prayer circle of about 90 plus with pure, heartfelt requests and celebrations. One big prayer I expect is a thankfulness for the good health report of our director of caring who is very special to everyone plus a blessing on her future with slower doses of chemotherapy. Our student’s prayers have the thirty-nine leaders and the additional rodeo volunteers going home with similes on their faces. Our students “get it.”