Competitions
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I invited a new classmate to join our volleyball team. Thought I kill two birds with one stone: we could use a tall guy, and I couldn’t bear seeing him unfriended during recess. Turned out he couldn’t play well, but we got to be friends for life. We pitched in to buy a professional ball.…
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At the last World Cup, the team from Netherlands, who lost, cried. Ten years ago, at the World Trade Center, women and men cried (white dust on black suits). And last night, I cried, while watching The Best of Youth, an Italian saga of a family coming of age since the 60’s. So much idealism,…