Edition 385 Monday 26/06/17
Hi,as a kid one of my fondest memories of winter was Mums
home made ham and vege soup!The prep started early on Saturday mornings when secret
ingredients were thrown together with a bacon bone then left to simmer while we
all headed off to footy.On our return we could smell the aroma wafting down the
street and couldn’t wait to get home with our fresh loaf of bread to crack into
it!!The large pot and the invitingly homely smell lasted all weekend.This
winter is the same at 48 and it brings back a lot of wonderful memories for me
and hopefully will have a lasting and similar affect on our son!
Fletcher
reckons he likes the taste of winning and player of the day awards
(#2 last week) almost as much as birthday parties,fund raising chocolate and
Pyjama Days at Daycare!!
Something
funny about being careful what you say or wish for is that more
often than not you end up getting your wish. Well that’s the theory Christine
and Fletcher were working on as they out voted me on the permanent addition of
a Cockateil (Tommy) to our family!
Just because I said I sort of enjoyed having the sound around
didn’t mean I wanted one!!
Recently at Toastmasters I had to learn and present a fairy
tale.I was able to practise and perfect using Fletcher’s expert help.Jack and
the Beanstalk is now our # 1 bedtime tale and we take turns presenting our
respective versions…some things are priceless!
Loving the sport at the moment with the Lions vs AB’s and
Team NZ vs Oracle heading for a dramatic conclusion,roll on another nail biting
heart stopping week!!.....Cheers Jonesey.
Kate Henderson reckons the vege soup is a definite winner
just like her!!!
“All kids need is a little
help,a little hope and someone who believes in them”.
Magic
Johnson
Twenty
five years ago I was privileged to be involved with a fantastic group of young
men.
They
were the 1992 Kings College 1st XV and I was lucky enough to be one of their
coaches
I
say lucky because coaching the College’s premiere team was normally reserved
for masters who aspired and competed fiercely for the right to coach the top
team.
I
was honoured to be invited to a 25 year reunion of this team last week.
I
was blown away to catch up with this group who are now all in their 40’s and
busy husbands, fathers, coaches,business managers and genuinely solid citizens
to a man.
My
step son Stephen was in the team which made me especially proud to be
associated with him and his mates….something a lot of Fathers long for but
rarely achieve!
At
the time all those years ago I remember life as a coach to be a roller coaster
of emotions. There was pleasure,passion,elation,disappointment and pain at
times but above it all as a group we had one thing in common together…….belief
in each other and ourselves.
This
above all else at our reunion was reinforced time and time again as we
recounted and embellished our favourite memories,the brotherhood was
alive,heartfelt and ingrained.
The
most humbling thing for me was to be thanked in this forum for shaping the
lives, attitudes and behaviours of a group of young men at a formative time of
their lives.
Their
life experiences since we were last together as a team reinforcing to them the
importance of these things and being prepared to some degree by me to handle
them.
I
gave my time unconditionally because it was my passion and I never sought or
expected recognition or praise however my feeling of satisfaction and pride was
overwhelming!
“A Coach will impact
more young people in a year than the average person does in a lifetime”.Billy
Graham
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