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| ... giving the ball a bounce ... |
I think because of the happiness I feel when I am watching someone I love in a basketball or volleyball tournament.
I must bring with me all of the joys of the past and being their with my own children – learning the rules of the game, finding out the names of the players, sitting by their parents, shouting out ‘good play’ when a well-oiled team works together to gain a point or two, hearing one of the players call out ‘magnificent’, as I heard one yesterday.
He was right. It was a great play.
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| the begnning of a running serve ... |
I met Bianca, Nadia and Catherine – the trio of other volleyball players who like to some and see Tom.
I talked about Tara Westover’s book, Educated, with one of the parents who had the book sitting on her lap.
She travels a lot, she said, and she carries it with her to read.
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| Tom's resting stance |
I told her that by the end of the book, having read it twice now, I was thinking about how difficult the relationships can be, between adults who have lived in the same house for many years, both parents and children.
I must have read the book when it first came out. I couldn’t remember doing that. I do remember listening to 4 different interviews with her.
When I picked up the book again, each page I thought, wow, did I hear this in the interview, since it seems familiar to me.
I was many pages in until I figured out, yes, I did read this.
But I didn’t mind a second read since she is clear about what she was thinking during her adolescence and young adult years.
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| A Metaphor half the team looks east the other half looks west |
I find the last third of the book compelling and will probably read it again some night, when I am winding down and getting ready to sleep.
Well, watching tournaments, … a joy.
And being literate … another privilege.
Arta
