Teach Your Children

In my lifetime, I've gone through at least seven or eight basketball backboards.  I loved to shoot hoops.  I shot in rain, I shoveled snow from the driveway to shoot, I shot at night and I even shot with my dog trying to guard me.  I practiced and got pretty good.  Then, I'd go to the playground and hook up with other kids - like Christine Kane.  Christine puts my game in perspective.  She is Lebron James.

Rust Never Sleeps starts with a short post by Seth Godin.  Seth crisply teaches two lessons garnered from a Neil Young concert.  Christine expands, no roots out, no probes...  Christine grabs the rebound, drives coast to coast, elevates and windmills in a backboard shattering dunk, completely undressing five defenders on the way.  Christine takes Seth's thought, chips away the rust, smooths it out and unveils soul-piercing insight.  You must read this post. 

We meet folks from time to time on our journey through the universe, who God has placed there for us to emulate.  As someone willing to shovel the driveway in order to string a few paragraphs together, one of those folks for me is Christine Kane.

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by...

Comments

[Christine Kane]

Hi Dave,

Wow. What a nice post! It's SO weird that you wrote this today. Last night, my husband and I watched the UNC basketball game with some friends, and I was blown away watching Tyler Hansbrough. This morning my husband and I spent about an hour talking about athletes and focus. I was having a moment of envying Tyler for his focus and mastery (and parenting!). And then I read this post! It cracked me up. I so appreciate your kind words, especially on the eve of my one-year anniversary of blogging!

[dave]

That is odd Christine, because focus was on my mind yesterday as Ron Lewis of Ohio State drained a three to send the game into ot. And focus is a key to a daily manifestation that I've been working on for nearly a year. Thanks for stopping by!