What a Great! Saturday. Beautiful skies, lots of kids and parents and family members and a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Just a splendid day for soccer and just visiting. It started at 8:30 on two fields and ended with two varsity wins on the Stadium field. Hundreds of fans, friends, family and community members attended the 10 hour event. It was a wonderful day in the life an a high school student and its surrounding "village."
We enjoy the wins and this year was ours on the soccer fields. But that is not true in some years. Whatever the outcome and whatever the year, the important events of celebrating with our children, the young people of our neighborhood and community is what matters. How we act and react, how we treat one another in victory and defeat, how we work and play hard and how at the end of the day we come together to go after another day - those are the points of honor and respect. 40 years from now the victories will be memories but the character and self-respect we earned will mark us forever.
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Great blog, Bill! You rock!
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