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I've Always Loved The Special Joy In A Pick Up ...
Contributed by Rick Thiessen on Sep 16, 2002 (message contributor)
I’ve always loved the special joy in a pick up football game as the quarterback. The reason: you can take advantage of incredibly diverse abilities in football. There’s always a player the other team quickly forgets about. It could be the token girl or, it could be someone’s little brother. These people are perfect for trick plays:
- give the ball to the little guy and have him run behind student body right. Or…
- have your studs go deep and little Billy is all alone for the easy 10 yard pick up.
In these situations, I’ve watched a Billy or a Susie run back to the huddle after the big gain or the score, with a special look on their face. This is what I realize in those moments: They are beaming on the inside because they know that who they are was important for the success of the team.
In other words, they realize that if they were somehow different, bigger, stronger, faster, a different gender, the play wouldn’t have worked. THE PLAY NEEDED THEM AS THEY WERE, NOT AS THEY WEREN’T. It’s this dawning sense of value: I’m useful as me, not as someone else. Who I am is important. I don’t have to be anyone else to be needed.
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Team: Together Each Accomplishes More!
Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 15, 2005
TEAM: Together Each Accomplishes More! I was a student on the LMU campus in the early ’70’s. There was a required course called Music Appreciation. We had to spend hours in the music library listening to Masterpieces from the music greats. One day while digging through some old albums, I ran ...read more
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Neo-Paganism Today (Over A Million In Us/Canada). ...
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 2, 2007
Neo-Paganism today (over a million in US/Canada). One example, Hellenic Neo-Paganism. This is from a UK Neo-pagan website: What Gods Do You Worship? Most of us worship at least the Twelve Olympians, in either Their Greek or Roman forms, as well as other divinities (e.g. Gaia, Persephone, Pan, ...read more
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