The DN
This morning's headline in
the Merc News:
NOW FOR ROUND 3
2 It's on.
3 Gonna be interesting to say the least.
4 The best teams clearly are there.
5 Any of the others could have made it as well.
6 Hard fought battles. Amazing stuff to watch.
7 Somehow these guys become true-life Avengers. It had to come to this. Had to.
8 It's on.
9 Looking forward to marching into Seattle.
10 I know the oddsmakers are going to go with the Seahawks, but we shall see.
11 The Seahawks have already pissed off Niner fans by denying us seats.
12 Seriously? Wussy. Beyond wussy. Just sayin'. We're comin' Seattle. Comin' to getcha, as your boy Jimi would have said. Hear the rumblings?
13 I can't imagine that the 12th whatever is going to rattle the Niners at this point. So bring it.
14 The fact that they went through the snow and through two loud home crowds will amount to something.
14 But we shall see.
15 I'm looking forward to the last big NFL weekend.
16 And the Niners have the greatest fan ever in my Dad (the good-lookin' Niner fan above) out there cheering. And I guarantee my Mom (cover-girl for the book below him) is working to make it happen from the real Cloud.
17 I think it's time for a sixth ring. They might have the 12th man, but we have assembled a better team, and that's all of us. Gonna take care of business.
18 Bring it, Niners. For the thousands of your fans.
19 Bring it.
20 Moving On, Part One: I got to Junior Prom on Saturday night.
21 The Class of 2015.
22 Anybody lookin'?
23 Anybody feelin' a bit old?
24 That'll do it.
25 It was still fun. That class brought the world back, fresh and alive.
26 SO much hope!
27 And a LOT of innocence.
28 It wasn't that long ago, you know. Time warp. Time travel. Let's go back a few years.
29 Let's travel back to my 25th birthday, if this craft can make it that far.
30 My Nana, my Dad's mom came up to me, smiled and said, "Happy Birthday!"
31 Twenty-five. I felt so old.
32 My bones even hurt.
33 A quarter of a century.
34 I looked into her beautiful Irish eyes and said, "I'm getting SO old!"
35 She smiled with loving charm and said, "Ah, you're just a pup!"
36 Out of all the other faces flying at me at the time concurring, "OH I KNOW!!! You feel SO old! At 24 it was like, yeah okay, but 25...reality man!" LOTS of those comments flew at me like mad bats, but one comment stood above the others:
37 "Ah, you're just a pup!"
38 God bless you Nana.
39 We are all pups, including the guy in the picture.
40 My hero.
41 I thank my sister Linda for taking that grand pic of Dad yesterday, and my sister Gayle for the recipe book of my Mom's cooking. Both are perfect.
42 He still looks like a pup. I'm sure Nana would tell him that. Mom always looked like a pup, and a darned cute one.
43 Time travel back. The Class of 2015. Those classes will keep on arriving and keep on having lovely proms, and lovely hopes and lovelier dreams. The last two digits will move swifter than a gas pump. The years zip by; they do.
44 Each time I'll tell someone what year those classes are, and they'll always say, "WHOA! I'm getting old."
45 You're not. Every time that happens pause and remember this:
46 You're just a pup.
47 Embrace all of it.
48 It's life that is far too short.
49 Time for all of us to embrace it.
50 Enjoy your Monday today. Treat today like a burger joint. In and out.
51 Put all of it in perspective.
52 Live life.
53 Love life.
54 Peace.
~H~
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