Monthly stats:

a. Books read: 4 (Country Dentist, Soundbite, …, …)

b. New experiences: big ten football game – go blue!

My daughter is a high school junior and we are starting to do college visits. Super fun! There’s tons to see when you go to the Big House. Scores of athletes, cheerleaders, 100K fans. What I thought was most heartwarming was looking at the field. There were kids throwing footballs, twirling batons, tuning instruments for the marching band. All kids that you know were in some capacity by somebody they view special loved. Because while I was literally looking at college pre-game, I was also seeing tens of thousands of hours put into the individuals as part of this gametime ritual. The Saturday morning and after school practices and games and lessons and sitting in stands on warm sunlit autumn evenings as well as spitting cold rainy mornings, gas tanks evaporated driving to competitions two states away, the uniforms and dance costumes and making snacks when it was your day to be team mom. The coaches that took the time to help develop skillsets that may have gone otherwise unnoticed. The dollars and cents and encouragement and dedication to helping each kid find their space, their interest, then to enable them to hone the same. The dedication to keep these kids on track athletically, academically to get to go to college where most of them will see their athletic careers to fruition and their studies will catapult them to next level success on a different sphere. This is why come Monday morning the feeling of defeat after a loss on the field can be felt so deeply still. And yet brings with it the cosmic lesson of owning results that you, and many many others, helped that are wins on different levels.