The other day we were talking about why arts organizations should have blogs. Most of the reasons go for any organization.

Here is one more reason: blogs are a great way to report on past events. We all have very busy schedules and at any given time, we may have to choose between two or more things to do.

Just as an example, my friend Monica had already bought the whole weekend ticket for this year’s folk festival when she received an invitation to a fundraiser by another mutual friend, Haedy, for her Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk - so she just couldn’t make it to Haedy’s event. However, she has been a staunch supporter of this fundraising campaign for years and would really like to know what happened. She wants to be kept up to date.

This is not an isolated example; it’s probably happened to you before.

So – for those of you who weren’t there, and to show what such a report might look like, here’s a little recap of what happened at Haedy’s party on Sunday

One thing you need to know about Haedy is that she is a fabulous cook – and, let’s face it, a fanatic cook. So here she is, very, very sick, and what does she do? She cooks 100 cabbage rolls, 60 pieces of fish, 60 sausages, a gazillion devilled eggs, a bucketful of salad, 2 huge casseroles, 6 strudels – and the list goes on. Of course she had help, as usual, from Timmie and June – but still. Boy, Haedy, you’re crazy. And of course the food – all of it Hungarian, to celebrate her ethnic background – was mouth-watering to the extreme.

It wasn’t just a celebration of her background – it was a celebration of her whole life. Just because things aren’t looking good for her health doesn’t mean she can’t have a great party. So there was music, and Haedy dished up her sidesplitting stories, one after the other. As she was playing Pink Floyd’s The Wall, she told how as a teenager, to drive her mother crazy, she’d put it on full blast at 6 o’clock in the morning: “We don’t need no education …”

More sidesplitting happened when a friend of Liz’s led us through a 15-minute session of Laughter Yoga. Who is Liz? She is “the other grandmother” – last year, Haedy became a grandmother to her son Nick’s daughter Kiera. As I was looking down at Kiera from the podium – it was my job to be the bumbling MC – I realized that among the crowd, there was a distinct group of people in the room: five grandmothers, whose children had given birth to six grandchildren, every single one with Haedy’s help.

Yup, Haedy sure knows how to celebrate life.

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