Going green for a good cause. Join in, won't you peas?

Full background and information here.

Full, really fun and heartening peapod slideshow here.

Seriously, check out the slideshow I just sent you to, it's so great and creative.

That's my dance partner Luc (Mindblob) and me. Now, we look like flies but, I assure you, we're dancin' peapods.

Why are we dancing and, more to the point, why are we dressed as peapods? The short answer is that we're dancin' fools for a good cause.

The longer answer is that there's a movement afoot and it's unlike any other cause...because it involves peas. And peas are a funny thing. In fact, a lot of people don't eat their peas (and carrots) but they sure like poking fun at this funny vegetable (legume? what are peas anyhow?). Personally, I've always liked peas and have no issue with them whatsoever.

And now I like them even more.

While a better explanation is right here, the 'gist of it is that we are creating these "pea-avatars" (pea-vatars?) in support of fundraising for breast cancer research and, specifically, in support of Susan Reynolds, a woman/blogger who is going through a tough battle currently, and bravely sharing this experience. Why peas? Because when she was going through discomfort due to biopsies, she used a bag of frozen peas for comfort in addition to ice and uploaded a pic of the peas. And then one of her friends suggested we all donate the cost of a bag of frozen peas to breast cancer research. And somehow, quite magically from there, "peaple" started running with it and now, a full fundraising site will go live on Friday...along with many people uploading pea pics to Flickr and to their twitter profiles.

And of course everyone is getting behind this--gender doesn't matter. Not only does breast cancer, in small percentage, affect men, let's face it, men make a far, far bigger deal about breasts than we women ever do. (That was my best shot at a pep talk, sorry if I offended anyone...I'm doing my best to get you to part with money at holiday time.)

What's the action point?

Please consider donating to this cause (the site will go live on Friday) and, do like so many of us are and make a pic of yourself with peas and send it to ringleader-and-cheerleader Connie Reece. And save a dance for me, wontcha?

Also, does anyone have any contacts over at Green Giant, Birdseye or another "pea" brand? I'd like for someone to ask them to donate to this worthy cause. I know in my holiday heart that they'd love to make a donation....they just need to know about it--and then it can be a Christmas Miracle. Alas, I know no one in the pea biz.

PS: Thank you to my dear friend and colleague Gavin Heaton for making my pea picture dance. I'm too much of a photoshop idiot to attach my head to a peapod and he was happy to do it at 3 in the morning (which is something like 2pm to him in Sydney, Australia). And thank you to Luc for dancing with me, I was feeling a little self-conscious dancing by myself at the holidays--and it was bringing back bad memories of my prom.

PPS: Thanks to my friends here that hopefully won't mind my using part of their logo. It's for a good cause.

Comments

[Connie Reece]

CK, bless you pea-pickin' heart for picking up this idea and blogging about it. Susan has been so very encouraged by the incredible show of support and I'm very touched by the creativity and effort so many people have put into their pea-vatars (we need an official spelling!).

[RED]

I hate to eat my peas but I sure want to dance with them!!!
How much is a bag of peas anyway?

[mindblob]

CK,
A pleasure dancing with you for the good cause. Thanks for this post also. I really hope some brands will join and push things forward!

[Gavin Heaton]

Now, I love those moves!