The Athlete Way

A METAPHOR: I love an empty movie theater. When the darkness extends its invitation: Please dreamer, join me and my friends, Loud Noise and Vibrant Image; take a seat, kick your feet up, enjoy the contraband bulge of candy in your purse, I won’t tell security, it will be our secret. Lose yourself in the blanket of someone else’s imagination come to life. For a few hours, I invite you, join me. . .       Craving the solitude of the theater, I indulge the darkness and accept his invitation.  Oh, what a host, he offers his previews, teasing me with the small snippets of film: Jump aboard dreamer, for an adventurous ride through the past, present, and future. Listen to my story; I will entrance you and just when you beg for more, I will leave you; and it is on you to hitch the next train… Like the gullible dreamer I am I jump aboard the tease train and ride the rail, preview after preview, for what I hope will be a long journey; and just as I settle in my seat and ...

On Tuesday, the team completed the third phase of training with the US Navy Seals from Coronado Island. Here is a brief video capturing some photo moments from the experience. Thank you to Chief Stella and all those in Coronado who tried to break us in order to build us. USA.

It was a Starry Day in a Sunny Sky... a day when hope soared, oh, so high... for it was a day when gathered smiles glowed... in celebration of those who walked the survivors road... The brave, whose cards were dealt by a hardened hand...  the courageous, who in its face, made their stand... to pursue life, oh, so grand... and to walk again with footsteps in the sand... We celebrate the bold. Who did not do as they were told.  Who took their hand, and choose to play, Against the odds, to win another Starry Day. Perhaps a day very much like this very first Day of May.