Full Circle is proud to present our 8th annual Live Your Dash Luncheon Friday, April 29, 2022. The luncheon is themed after the poem titled “The Dash” by Linda Ellis and awards a select few in the Richmond area who are truly making a meaningful difference in our community.
These award winners are selfless, hard-working, dedicated to their cause, and compassionate towards others. They are using their dash to make sure our Richmond community is a better place to live and work.
Part of Ellis’ poem reads:
“I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning… to the end.
He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time they spent alive on earth and now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own, the cars… the house… the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.”
Meet Our Featured Speaker:
Anna is a full-time writer and speaker. Her work has been featured in Woman’s Day, Ladies Home Journal, The Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Today’s Parents and more.
Speaking to groups and connecting women to each other are two of Anna’s passions.
Anna writes about life with truth and humor, whether she is chronicling her inner monologue during an eyebrow threading session, or pondering faith, parenting, and loss.
Anna began writing the blog An Inch of Gray in 2008 to share funny stories of life and motherhood and to find an online community. After the sudden death of her 12-year-old son Jack in 2011, Anna chronicled her grief journey in real time for her readers in order to reveal what grief is really like and to find healing for herself.
Anna began writing the blog An Inch of Gray in 2008 to share funny stories of life and motherhood and to find an online community. After the sudden death of her 12-year-old son Jack in 2011, Anna chronicled her grief journey in real time for her readers in order to reveal what grief is really like and to find healing for herself.
Her memoir, New York Times Bestseller Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love was published by Convergent Books, a division of Penguin-Random House. Since its release, Rare Bird has brought comfort and healing to many hurting families as well as helped those who walk beside them know how to be there.
Anna loves connecting women to one another and helping make sense, in her own way, of this beautiful, hard, grace-filled life.
Anna now writes full time, featured in major print media outlets and online. Anna, her husband, Tim, daughter, Margaret, and young son Andrew live outside of Washington, DC.
Join us in April:
The luncheon will take place Friday, April 29th from 11:30AM-1:00PM at a private club in Richmond, Virginia. We will celebrate our Live Your Dash Award winners, share stories from Full Circle’s comprehensive grief support programs, and hear from keynote speaker Anna Whiston-Donaldson.
If you would like to learn about sponsoring this event, please contact Allyson England Drake at allyson@fullcirclegc.org.
Tickets go on sale March 12, 2022.