Last night I went to an event to support COACHART, an organization that creates a transformative arts and athletics community for families impacted by childhood chronic illness. Over 1 million children in CALIFORNIA suffer. "Children living with chronic illness may feel isolated because of their condition. Frequent hospital visits and deficient immune systems often cause them to miss time in school and recreational activities. Families, overwhelmed by the cost and demands of ongoing medical care, often lack the resources to seek out or afford extracurricular activities. Healthy siblings are affected too when family resources are focused on a chronically ill child. CoachArt supports these families by offering free recreational lessons that bring a sense of normalcy back into their lives." What a wonderful thing. Many of my friends including ZANDER LURIE, JIMMY PITARO, BOB ROBACK, SEAN MORIARTY, ERIK MORENO, BRENT WEINSTEIN, and WALTER DELPH are on the board. Last night's GALA OF CHAMPIONS honored pal CHRIS SILBERMANN and his partner TED CHERVIN who run ICM PARTNERS. CoachArt offers a platform for volunteers who offer expertise in artistic or athletic hobbies and matches them with kids with the same interest. These volunteers are heroes. In one of the videos they showed last night, DISNEY PUBLISHING hosted kids as they learned to tell stories, animate them and publish their own books. Just heart warming. I have to figure out how to get involved more. They have no option to teach kids how to complain better, so I have to find another activity given my expertise is not an option. Please check it out and if you live in California, see how you can get involved. Lot of nastiness going on in the world and if you could see the smiles on these kids faces it took about 2 seconds to forget all that... I used to think the word curation was snobbish. It brought with it images of high minded snobs in areas like art or music. To be a truly great curator you can be discerning but you can't be a snob. If you are, you suck at curation... OMG, please help us... Hey, you better up your HALLOWEEN game... Happy Birthday to JONATHAN SCHULHOF (always Jonny to me), SERENA ALTSCHUL, STEVE GILLMOR, and BRAD KLAPPER.