BT5K

Brain cancer took my mother a year and a half ago. Something I hold dear to my heart is her playful but genuine use of the word “wuv”. It was a favorite voicemail and email sign off of hers: wuv and peace. It really stuck out to me and it’s become how she lives in my mind. 

Today was the annual American Brain Tumor Association’s NYC 5k. Almost half a million dollars was raised for brain tumor research.

Last year I ran it as a (lonely) individual but this year a group of about 20 friends came together as a team, Team Nilofer. I made a red beanies with the word wuv on them, and seeing those red beanies on smiling faces doing this with me, really made today great.