The significance of the Spike pictured above is it means that a few new people have stumbled across our 16 year old site. First things First, Welcome 🙏
Any time it happens I try to do a quick reboot.
Our site is part of our Non-profit organization, OneofUs.Care. We are simply trying hard to give people hope and let them know that they’re not alone in the World.
The number 1 thing about our site is everything on it must be 100% Positive. That in itself scares off anyone who wants to see people get blown out of the water 💧or do the actual blowing themselves. We are not trying to make people think that everything is just all peachy nor are we trying to create false hope, just spread Positively whenever we can.
Why isn’t my name on any of the 3 sites?
Because nothing I’m trying to do is about me. My efforts are my interpretation of what a God who has blessed me wants me to do.
Why are there so many emojies on these sites ?
They are my way to keep myself the correct amount of Humble. It’s easy to take ones self too seriously.
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Why are there 3 sites ?
One sight is for information about our efforts overall.
One sight is for ” Live stories ” that will always be 90% about the Community that we call home.
The third site is called the Laurel Fork Coconut 🥥 Telegraph and its designed for photos 📷 that stand alone, without needing a 500 word story attached with them.
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How do we decide where to focus our energy ?
Reading the Room is a huge part of my day to day life. Each Coach or each teacher has their own thought process. The goal is to create EQUALITY in every place imaginable.
Going to School is a challenge in this day and age. Raising a child is a challenge in this day and age. Shoot, buying groceries to feed your 👪 is a challenge…..
One of the groups that I tend to lean towards is the Junior Varsity teams in a given Sport. This is because they are easily dismissed as just the JV. Equally means equality.
Not everyone in School gets to be the High School Quarterback or voted Most Popular. So, while I will never have the privilege of teaching in a Classroom, I do my best to make as many people understand that they matter and that will lead me to what I call the Alyssa Ervin effect.
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Alyssa Ervin and Seth Greer
When you are trying hard to create balance and not show favoritism in the slightest, certain people present a greater challenge.
The past few years I had to find a way to co-exist in a World 🌎 where Ervin was such a part of. I am a huge fan of both this impressive young Lady 👩 and her Family 👪.
But raising the bar by writing ✍ about her more than I did would just have made my job harder. That was part of the reason for the trip to Kentucky when it was just her and no other Lady Cavaliers. It gave me an opportunity to write about her without pulling anything away from someone else.
Now let’s move forward to this year and Mr. Seth Greer. Seth and I have never had a conversation before but let me tell you a few things about the level of appreciation that I have for our Varsity Football 🏈 Coach.
In just one season, I witnessed this Man do as much if not more for this Community than I can remember witnessing. The amount of Pride that Seth put back into this community is off the chsrts. I simply cannot be prouder of what this Leader has accomplished here on The Hill.
Reading the Room tells me that Seth and I have a great deal in common. We want what’s best for our Youth and don’t need fanfare from it. In the same manner that I don’t put my name on my efforts, Seth isn’t looking for anyone to throw flowers at his feet. I can absolutely respect that so I stay out of his way and wear West Long Wrestling gear around town because I think West is one of us in wanting the same thing for our Students.
Please don’t mistake the fact that by respecting his space takes away from just how much Respect I have for the Man that he is and what he has done in a short period of time.
I will conclude this portion of the appreciation I have for Coach Greer by saying, I would love to buy you a slice of Pizza 🍕 if the window ever presented itself.
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Final One – If you are respectful of Seth Greer and his space, why is it different with Howard Mayo and the Girls Basketball program?
Let me start out by saying that my favorite Sports season at the High School level is the Spring. Not only is that when my true sport in Carroll County (Softball) takes place but there are 10 other teams fighting hard for attention and attendance. There are no heavyweights, just 11 coaches and 11 teams all trying hard to get people in their seats.
Howard Mayo is another Coach I have a great deal of respect for and I understand if it was up to him, he would like to just Coach his team and leave it at that.
My life as a human being on God’s earth is better because Rick Nester, Kevin Burress, Marion Harris, Ron Cochran and Velvet Leonard are in it. It’s just that simple.
Please note that I left Kris Richardson off that list because he stayed at school yesterday 15 minutes longer last night solely because he wanted to Win!
Take a look at that list of names and find the connections. Rick’s daughter-in-law Kayla is the assistant Coach. Marion’s daughter Callie, Velvet’s daughter Laynie-Jo and Hulk’s daughter Natalie team up with Ron’s granddaughter CC to be a part of the rebuilding project.
These people and their daughters and granddaughter simply matter to me to the point I cannot openly pull for them when others might be less inclined. I could go much further down the roster and list even more connections but I hope it is understandable at this point.
These three are just the opposite because they Coach the JV team and I am the Champion of All-Things Junior Varsity!
I am just getting to know them a bit but they are sharing heartfelt thoughts about their smaller than normal size roster.
Last night 🌙, Hulk mentioned to me that one of this dynamic trio is a recorded singer !!! We need two things from her- to come across the Boulevard to perform the National Anthem at one of our games and also it would help if she wanted to give Hulk and I singing lessons !!!
Thanks for taking the time to read this and know that a background story like this only happens when we see that we have a few new guests.
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