Spirit Box

As Team Oz's community captain, it was my "job" to come up with a weekly team spirit award, so I bought a Wizard of Oz lunch pail. Stop laughing! Here's the idea: Each week, an outstanding participant will be awarded the Spirit Box -- someone who embodies heart, brains, and/or courage. It will be given out at the Saturday run, and inside will be something that represents heart, brains, and/or courage. This could be anything -- a poem, a photo of a personal honoree, some funny tchotchke, etc. Ideally, it will be something that will inspire/motivate the outstanding participant or at least make them laugh and want to keep working hard.

I put something in the Spirit Box yesterday and awarded it to our first recipient, Janice Chan! She's one of our team honorees and has been in remission from Hodgkin's Lymphoma for a year; she's also training to run with the team. Next week, she'll add something to the Spirit Box and I'll award it to someone new. The contents of the box will grow over the season; it'll be like an arsenal of inspiration, motivation and fun for whoever receives it. (And if we outgrow the lunch box, because it's sort of small, I'll get a canvas bag with a Wizard of Oz theme.)

GO TEAM!