This has been in the works now for some time now, but we’ve just been being a little quiet about it. Â As a board, we decided RTF needed a new logo. Â It was hard for me to part with the baby seal, as it had sentimental value. Â Nobody really understood why we had a seal as our logo. Â It was because “Ronan” means “Little Seal” in Gaelic, but most people don’t know that therefore the seal was confusing. Â We were getting a lot of, “Are you trying to save the seals or what?” No dudes, we’re trying to save kids with cancer… how do you not get that from looking at a seal? (kidding. I know it is confusing if you don’t know the back story)
We met with some very talented and kind people at Fervor Creative for hours upon hours. Â I even had them revamp your seal logo before my board members told me they were just not feeling it anymore. Â So I took Tanya and Fernanda to have yet another meeting with them. Â We sat and talked about you and the things that came to mind when we thought of you. Â I had a picture in my mind of something really simple. Â A boy wearing a Fedora. With his head held high, like you alway had yours. We also talked about stars and the significance of those to us. Â I knew having Fernanda with me was vital to getting this done finally the right way. Â She has a way of expressing her thoughts about what you represent in such a beautiful way and sometimes I am too sad to do so.
We got some samples back and as soon as I saw them, I started to cry. Â What they came up with is beyond perfect and I am beyond in love with it. Â I sent it to your daddy and he had the same reaction. Â He said it reminded him of the book, “The Little Prince” which he loved to read to you. Â I knew from both of our reactions, that this was perfection.
So, here you go Ro and supporters of The Ronan Thompson Foundation. Â Makeover complete. Â Thank you to Fervor Creative for taking a bunch of rambling words full of such love and pain, and turning it into something as beautiful as this. Â You have hearts of gold for taking this on and not charging us a dime. Â We are forever thankful for what you have created for us and promise to continue to do good things in this world with the gift you have given us.
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