THINK before you speak. THINK before you whine and complain.

 On August 16, 2020 I read a quote by J.J. Redick, who played for the Pelicans NBA
basketball team.   Redick at the time had a 2 year contract worth $26.5 million. 

He said........
"I'm in my 6th week of not seeing my children.  I've never gone that long without
seeing my kids or without seeing my wife.  That can really tug at your soul a little bit."
(quote J.J. Redick NBA player)

I remember on that day reading his words and being sickened.  At that time in August of 2020,
millions of people in the USA were without jobs.  They were only hanging on due to the unemployment money, or from food give a ways, or from the kindness and generosity of family and friends helping them. 
I recall thinking at the time.... his wife and family were FINE.  Let alone my sheer disgust for this individual not even stopping to think that in the USA we have an ALL volunteer military that leaves family behind for months and sometimes over a year at a time to do a military duty assignment.  POOR J.J. Redick who had not seen his family in 6 weeks. 
As a military Mother, I have known family not to see their military kids in 12 months, in 18 months and sometimes in a 2 year times span, LET ALONE the families of our dead.
They will NEVER see a child, a parent, a brother or sister again. 
IF  I could have spoken to Redick I would have told him...........
"SHUT THE FUCK UP" !!!!!!!!!!    "Play your game and shut the fuck up" !!!!!!!!!

So you might wonder why I am posting this in May of 2021.  I had written this down on an index card and I am now just getting to sharing on my blog.

THINK before you speak.  THINK before you whine and complain.
Perhaps someone has things way worse off then you do. !!!!!!!!!

 

 A Background on the National Basketball Association and how they
resumed and carried on in the face of the Pandemic. 

The 2020 NBA Bubble, also referred to as the Disney Bubble or the Orlando Bubble, was the isolation zone at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, that was created by the National Basketball Association (NBA) to protect its players from the COVID-19 pandemic during the final eight games of the 2019–20 regular season and throughout the 2020 NBA playoffs. Twenty-two of the thirty NBA teams were invited to participate, with games being held behind closed doors at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and the teams staying at Disney World hotels.

The bubble was a $190 million investment by the NBA to protect its 2019–20 season, which was initially suspended by the pandemic on March 11, 2020.  The bubble recouped an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue.  In June, the NBA approved the plan to resume the season at Disney World, inviting the 22 teams that were within six games of a playoff spot when the season was suspended. Although initially receiving a mixed reaction from players and coaches, the teams worked together to use the bubble as a platform for the Black Lives Matter movement.

After playing three exhibition scrimmages inside the bubble in late July, the invited teams played eight additional regular season games to determine playoff seeding.

The playoffs began on August 17, and the NBA Finals began on September 30. The season ended on October 11 when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games. From the start of the resumed 2019–20 season until the end of the NBA Finals, the NBA ended with no recorded cases of COVID-19 for the teams participating in the bubble.

 

Teach

 On this Mother's Day....  May 9, 2021

Remember to .....  Teach Your Children.  <3

Teach Your Children

You, who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so, become yourself
Because the past is just a goodbye

Teach your children well
Their father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them, "Why?"
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

And you (Can you hear?) of tender years (And do you care?)
Can't know the fears (And can you see?)
That your elders grew by (We must be free)
And so, please help (To teach your children)
Them with your youth (What you believe in)
They seek the truth (Make a world)
Before they can die (That we can live in)

And teach your parents well
Their children's hell will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them, "Why?
If they told you, you will cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.

 

Songwriter: Graham Nash

From the album:   Déjà Vu

Released	May 1970
Recorded	October 24, 1969

 

David Crosby–harmony vocals

Stephen Stills–lead vocals (1st verse), harmony vocals, guitars, bass

Graham Nash–lead vocals (2nd verse), harmony vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion

Dallas Taylor–drums, tambourine, percussion

Jerry Garcia–pedal steel guitar