The Heavens Wept Over Him

Spirituality is elusive. It's like this connection or communication with God, a higher power, or something deep within one's self, that provides some clarity to life, morality, and value. No particular creed, religion, culture, belief, or people have exclusive licensing rights, nor does any one person. Spirituality comes and goes depending on how much effort is expended.  At least this is how I understand it. I made a connection with spirituality when putting together a speech about the War in Heaven. If you would like to read it, just copy and paste the URL to your browser:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15962377/Winning-the-War

Crazy Courage

On the neuro highway, regulating mood and brooding;
Transmitters runnin' low, the cursed three witness,
Sweet me--ragin' for pleasure, signal despond.

At the dark exit, gettin' off, hazards off, out of sight;

Patrolman, highwayman . . . whatever they call you--

find and bust me if you must, good luck and God bless.

Swallow me some pills. Smoke me some cigs;

Prozac it is and no tickets for smokin.'

Roadin' for courage, courage to master.

Priceless

I wish I could remember where I read it. It was just a short blurb in the middle of a larger article. Here is the part that crosses my mind often: a POW in Vietnam was allowed by his captors to send a letter to his family with a limited number of words.  Some of those words were spent on the importance of getting a family picture at least every year. This took me aback and made an impression.  Here's me with my 3 kids.

Having Fun . . .

. . . is not the most important thing about playing baseball. We don't want to lose. We want to win. But the most important thing is to learn the basic rules, strategy, and fundamentals of the game of baseball. This is how I approach coaching kids. The fundamentals provide my players with the tools to make defensive plays, pitch, hit, and run the bases, feel a little sense of accomplishment. Knowing the rules and the strategy help my players truly understand defeat and to grasp what it takes to win. Tasting the bitterness of defeat is the pits, but coming back to the exhilaration of winning . . . now we're talking fun.