I met John again on the 13th of July.
He was about 30 days into his walk from Lands End to John O’Groats in aid of The Canmore Trust.
I’ve written about John a lot here and in fact, he was on the podcast here a little while ago and will be on another couple soon.
The stories that he’s creating and the book that he’ll be writing about his walk from Lands’ End to John O’Groats is and will be extraordinary.
He told my friend Jason Wong and I a few of these stories as we met for a coffee (and then he had a beer) at the end of his day walking.
Some days John is walking on his own, some days with his wife and some days with friends.
For the first 24 days he was put up by colleagues in dentistry all the way through Cornwall and Devon.
It will be another 6 weeks before he finishes at the top of the country and he understands exactly how difficult that will be and what will come next.
On behalf of The Canmore Trust, John is organising a dental wellbeing symposium on the 4th of November this year where different people will get together to try to help people in dentistry make things a little bit better for the people in dentistry so perhaps, we’re less likely to lose people in the business of dentistry.
But aside from that, what John is doing is personally quite remarkable.
He is facing all the terrible things that have happened to him in the last 2 1//2 years step by step, inch by inch and mile by mile.
To walk from Lands End to John O’Groats for anyone is worth a few pounds in my book but to do it in the face of what has happened to John and his family in the loss of his son, Cameron and to try to help (and they are helping massively) people who have suffered similar experiences or to prevent people suffering these experiences is quite something else.
The JustGiving page for The Canmore Trust is here.
I know you have the money; I hope that you’re never in the situation that John and his family are in.
If all of us are able to donate just a little bit, maybe we’ll be a little less likely to find ourselves there.
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