Wednesday, May 10, 2006

A Good Day for the Girls

Yesterday my friend and partner in good, Marie Hagen, and I took the articles of incorporation for "Girls Gotta Run" downtown to file them with the District government. We were successful! And it barely took twenty minutes. The clerk seemed astonished and overjoyed, really, that when Marie told her what we wanted to do and the clerk asked for the papers, Marie actually had them....and they were "in order."

We celebrated with a delicious Mexican lunch, including sangria, at La Loma on Capitol Hill and then took a quick trip to the Sewell-Belmont House so Marie could meet Becki Fogerty and see the house and the space for the show, etc. We had to cut it a little short because she had to get back to pick up her boys from school, but we were there long enough for her to get a sense of it and now she's brimming with ideas for the opening, as well as a logo, stationery, you name it.

This morning I opened my email to find a letter from Leslie Mitchell of PACT Ethiopia, in which she confirms my belief that we will be able to work together and that we have established an understanding to do so, even though we have yet to work out a lot of details. However, that means we have a reliable organization "on the ground" over there who can identify girls, be in charge of shoe dissemination, and provide an account of where our money goes. That is major. Ironically and in the "it's a small, small world" category, it turns out she lived while she was a child for several years on Jenifer Street, one block over from where Jim and I have lived for 25 years.

But that's a whole 'nother story.

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