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A happy memory from my o.net birthday party back in 2005. :-)

I create web sites for chronically ill children (http://www.SickleCellKids.org and http://www.CancerKid.org - the early phases- are up). The sites teach kids about what is happening in their bodies, what will happen at the hospital/doc's and what they can do to take responsibility for their own health. Right now I'm working on CancerKid.org to honor my little sister who died from cancer at age 3.

I also paint murals in children's hospitals (www.art-heals.org)- this fish is from my new undersea series- I do a lot of rainforest murals, too - I want kids to learn about our environment! I'm a community activist in Atlanta, GA. I've got an incredible son who is off at college.

I used to be in the corporate world until I woke up one day and saw myself as an 85 year old woman in a rocking chair looking back on my life and thinking "Now THAT was a big waste of time." That'll wake you up. They say "Leap and the net will appear." I did, it did and it still does. Life is amazing. (No judgements on the corporate world if that's your thing... it just wasn't mine!)

More info and pictures http://www.omidyar.net/group/com munity-general/ws/cynthia_gentry /

| Three passions have governed my life: | The longings for love, the search for knowledge, | And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. | | Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. | In the union of love I have seen | In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision | Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

| With equal passion I have sought knowledge. | I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. | I have wished to know why the stars shine.

| Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, | But always pity brought me back to earth; | Cries of pain reverberated in my heart | Of children in famine, of victims tortured | And of old people left helpless. | I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, | And I too suffer.

| This has been my life; I found it worth living.

| Bertrand Russell