Episode 58: Wash

If anybody asked us whether our lives had a central theme, we'd probably bumble and stumble and waffle and throw in a generous number of "umms" while we awkwardly sorted out loud. But not Zelma Colon. When you ask Zelma for the theme that sums up her one ridiculous life, she doesn't even pause. It comes off her tongue as if it was sitting there waiting for an order to deploy -- "beauty for ashes." And while her recent Multiple Myeloma diagnosis and treatment were an utter shock, these aren't the ashes Zelma is referencing when she looks back at her fifty something turns around the sun. Indeed, she sees cancer as the storm that brought a magnifying glass to the beauty that supplanted the ashes of her past. Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation, for the release of the Foundation's 58th mission story and challenge -- wASH. For more information about the project and to receive a free mission pack in the mail, visit www.theridiculoushour.com.