Stilts!

Per the Star Tribune this morning, a 24 year old man had finished walking 830 miles on stilts across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to raise awareness for cerebral palsy- and he has mild cerebral palsy himself.

First of all: stilts are cool. Like unicycles, pogo sticks and skydiving, stilts have always been something I'd like to try. I remember when they were expanding the Museum of Art and mudding the drywall, the workers would hop around on these bad-ass stilts so they could reach the higher areas of the wall. Stilts are bad-ass.

Second of all: I love it when people do random things to raise awareness for good causes. People walk across the country, people get in a canoe and journey a thousand miles for something. It's awesome. It seems so small, so random and so crazy and yet, the fact they do something small and random means that they get the media attention for the cause they want to promote. A bake-sale for cerebral palsy? Not so much. But if you wake up one morning and decide to walk across the UP of Michigan on stilts- that might get some notice.