September 28, 2019 / 10:16 / 42.872444°N, 78.873476°W / Cancer Run Near the General Mills Factory / Solidarity. Tempering the tempest with togetherness; bearing the battle by bond / One of Buffalo’s epithets is the City of Good Neighbors and on Saturday the 28th of September the city participated in Purple Stride Western New York, countless persons embodying the Samaritan to assuage the suffering of those with pancreatic cancer / Such malignancy falls on us like robbers on the traveler to Jericho – its power to wound is not to be dismissed / But in the tumult and the misery, we are not alone / In the recording, cancer (so other, blighting, and present) was transcribed for factory, whose drone rises and falls along the route of the run / Sometimes the steadfast footfalls of the runner or the heartening cheer of the crowd predominates; other times, we must persist in spite of the prevailing atmosphere of that which is against us – other times, ““There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it. But you do not stand alone.”1
“We was all of us just tumbling birds hanging in the sky. And hauled our bones 'long troubling roads and didn’t none of us know why. And as we staggered towards a frightening dawn, I swear all I ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever believed in was all of us together all along.” - Efrim Manuel Menuck
1: The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
