Netwalking In The Rain. Oh Yes, We Did!
We had our 2nd Netwalking event last Thursday. About half of the people who RSVP’d bailed out by 3 p.m., mainly due to pending rain storms. So at 4 p.m. I sent out an email saying the event was canceled. At 5:45 p.m. Irene Webster from Juice Plus called and asked if it was still happening. I told her I’d canceled. Her advice was to never cancel an event. What if someone didn’t get the email and they show up? Won’t they be upset that no one is there? I know I would be.
With that, I grabbed my rain coat, made some quick phone calls and ran up to the Farm Park for Netwalking to begin.
Ellen Fisher from the Women’s Yellow Pages soon arrived, along with Irene and my good friend Andrea.
The four of us headed out in the drizzling rain. We walked and we talked. We saw deer in the fields and visited the Trout Nursery. As in the first Netwalking event, we may have been small in numbers, but we were big in spirits. Everyone was enthusiastic and truly embraced the event. There was not one complaint about getting wet or about our hair getting damp and matted.
As Ellen said, “It’s not the number of connections that you make, but the quality of those connections.”
Thanks to a shared walk in the rain, I am now more deeply connected with those who did show up.
