Cheryl Sorg's Art for a Cause

My friend and local artist Cheryl Sorg has been working on a project to help bring awareness to  Human Trafficking. After reading a book on the subject Cheryl was inspired to do what she can to help support organizations that stop and prevent these crimes. In an effort to raise awareness she is donating proceeds from the sale of her thumbprint works as well as organizing an auction that she will be selling thumbprints of celebrities that believe in the cause.

I encourage you to take a look at her site and learn more about her cause and the creative ways she is going about making a difference.

www.cherylsorg.com

Erik Pulls 501 sessions for last year (The neck tan proves it)

My good friend Erik Baldwin started a goal on the first of last year to clock 500 sessions by the time 2010 came around. I, like many of his friends, have been paying close attention over the year to his progress.

The road to glory is not always paved with glassy waves and shakas. Over the course of the year I watched (and was dragged out to many of them) as Erik paddled out into every condition imaginable. While the rest of us were home sleeping on that cold blown out morning, Erik was paddling out. After it dumped and the water was all brown, Erik was out.  While it was dumping Erik was out. When the rest of us where curled up in the fetal possition from that cold that was going around, Erik was out sneezing in the lineup. 


To reach this kind of goal you have to take the good with the bad, the crowded with the empty and double over head with the knee high slop.  You have to preservere.

When Erik gave me the final count I wasn’t really surprised he made it because I saw how hard he was working at it. But I was surely taken aback by the feat itself. 


To give you an idea, the average surfer maybe surfs twice a week or 104 times a year with 261 days off to do other things like work, be with the family, or go to sporting events.


I tend to surf a lot and if I'm lucky if I get to surf about 4 to 5 times a week. I maybe clock  200 session a year leaving me with 150 days or so that I don't surf.  Frankly, I can get surfed out at 4 to 5 session a week. 


Erik on the other hand only missed 7 days last year! That means 358 days last year Erik was in the water and just under half of those days he had either double or triple sessions. That is staggering. I would say that there are few other surfers in the world who have clocked that kind of water time. 


Erik, my friend, well done. You have lived the dream we all wish we could. Now, I beg you, take some time off and work on smoothing out that wetsuit tan.