Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.
Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.
Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb. " And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.