I spent the past two days on the beach enjoying the last gasps of vacation before the school year kicks in for my partner and I. This was a much needed vacation–not in the sense that we needed to get away again after already having a wonderful almost three weeks in Seattle, but in the sense that we needed a really good cali run and I feel like we got exactly that out of this trip.
So, what does that mean? Well, we were looking forward to spending quality time together as a couple–a pair–a partnership and enjoying what it felt like to be out in the sand and under the sun and not having to worry about the other aspects of our lives that hold such time and attention. Mission accomplished. Love needs that. Love needs time between two people because the rest of the world actively works against love. I know this because my first marriage failed because we weren’t together and purely about each other for any real time and after a while we weren’t about each other hardly at all. The thing that binds a couple together has to be the couple and not the circumstance or the kids or any of that stuff. I’m grateful to be in a partnership where I am in it purely because I’m about her and she is in it purely because she is about me.
Some Thoughts:
- To begin: I’m super happy to be coaching this year. I feel like I’m going out on top and getting to a place where I understand the people responsible for the activity where my kids spend all their time and these are the right people to help them grow. That makes me happy.
- That being said, I am equally happy to go through the experience knowing the end is in sight. Already there is talk of a spring team and all that blah blah. Yeah, I am out. Kid is gonna focus on training up outside of the organized sport and come back in the spring of 23 ready to build his own path to high school success.
- This is the final Dragon Ball hunt! the hunt begins this weekend. It is time for it to be over as well. I worry at least one of the two is too old for it, and it isn’t the older one…