Losing composure6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() "I am very proud of her." As for me, the more sports I watch, the more I realize I have no handle on what I'm processing, That's why I often ask a coach, "Tell me what I just saw because I'm sure your version is different from mine even though I may like mine better."įast and afraid - Madi Smith, Cape senior basketball player, missed the last two seasons with catastrophic injuries to the same knee that required surgery. "She is having her best year in school," said her coach Bill Victory. I told her "Get used to it, you are a great player." What struck me was her game and the fact she is just so natural, but no older brothers on the playground, no AAU, she just comes out and plays. "No one ever asked to talk to me before," she said, and when I took her picture, it was the same. Natural-born talent - Alissa Haith, a CR junior point guard, is a player to admire (24 points and a bunch of assists) so I wanted to talk to her after Friday night’s game. Everyone was crying, but not me, I had no wisdom 20 years ago. All the senior girls wrote personal messages to parents which were read out loud. ![]() I emceed the 1995 state championship banquet at the Baycenter. She handled it, and I turned the program over to the senior girls for their silly gifts to one another. And then Sarah Dougherty announced Lizzie Frederick as the recipient and I had no input and no idea, but Lizzie is poised and unflappable unless you go after her French fries. We are with you.” But at a white church, you are on your own, it’s like, “You got yourself in, you get yourself out.” Eric Gooch and Fred Harvey standing in the back just laughed as did most people. And I say, “If this were a black church people would come to my rescue, shouting from their seats, “it’s OK, Fredman, you got this! P raise Jesus. I’m at the microphone and become paralyzed with emotion I tell people, “I can’t do this!” I hear laughter they think I’m joking. Barbara called me her “silver friend” after I once told her "New friends are silver and old friends are gold.” I brought her to the Cape field hockey team, she adopted my name for her, "One Tough Cookie,” through her cancer treatments and it was four years of magic and meaning for Cookie and the Cape players. So I’m bopping along, emceeing yet another state championship banquet Sunday night at the Virden Center, when I’m charged with introducing the new Tough Cookie Award in memory of Barbara Dougherty. Losing my composure - Wisdom is born of age and experience, sometimes with a focus so clear it is overwhelming. ![]()
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