Entries this day: Cingular_upside_down Soccer_julie Ultimate history_walk

Cingular upside down

1:28pm CDT Saturday 28 September 2002

This is bizarre. And I have no camera! Maybe it will stay long enough for me to get a picture later. My phone display is perfectly reversed top to bottom. Like the exact image of

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is mirror imaged upside down. And I just tried typing a phone number and not surprisngly that didn't change the upside downness of it. How bizarre!

Soccer julie

1:33pm CDT Saturday 28 September 2002

We're at Julie's soccer game now. Hannah and I have shared flag duty. Score is tied 3-3 now I think. It's 4th quarter. Actually Hannah and Antonella are doing flag duty together. Antonella has the flag and is running behind Hannah who has been telling her which way to point. Antonella is about 5 or 6 it looks like.

Ultimate

9:22pm CDT Saturday 28 September 2002

After spaghetti dinner at church, as a fundraiser for the junior high, we played random object throwing games (bouncy ball, soccer ball, ultimate disc) in the field. Eventually it turned into a game of ultimate. Totally my pleasure to help introduce the game to so many eager kids. I'm impressed with how quickly they embraced the game, and were just playing ultimate and having turnovers all over the place, but everyone knowing what was going on, never surprised at what team had the disc and why. Okay, the concept is simple, but these are mostly 8-11 year olds. I was impressed.

Funny was a kid about 3 years old who really wanted to play and have someone throw the disc to him, so I did and he caught it and it hit him in the lower lip, so his expression when he causght it was priceless. I interpreted it as, "I'm happy that I caught it, but that hurt. Am I happy or sad here? Wow that wasn't quite as fun as I had hoped!" I knelt in front of him and checked his mouth. Little bit of blood. Lisa escorted him off field to his mom.

Two brothers were there - Johnny and Jacob. Jacob was about 4 years old and really trying so hard to be as big as his brother who would taunt the shit out of him or worse, ignore him. I talked to Jacob a lot and helped him learn how to catch the frisbee with two hands alligator style instead of trying to catch it with both arms underneath like a holding a blanket.

He did quite well catching after that. I'm hoping my being nice to him helps erase my bad karma of kicking my little brother's butt when we were little.

history walk

9:13pm CDT Saturday 28 September 2002

Walked with Lisa around her old neighborhood and heard such beautiful stories about how she helped her friends convert some abandoned trolley tracks into a community garden, which now (14 years later) boasts beautiful trees, benches, irrigation system, and the blessing by the city now as a National Historic District or something equally cool.

We walked up and down its length - maybe 1.25 miles, which has been extended since Lisa last worked on it. Oh, one thing that really made me go "wow" is Lisa was all, "I planted that tree for Julie, and I planted that tree for Hannah and that tree for Addie." The kids have trees! That is so so cool.

Walked around Rhodes College, surrounded by a big fence and many acres of lush grass and trees. It's a very expensive private college according to Lisa.

Heard stories of the community of neighbors and who lived where and who divorced whom and who sold houses and who rented houses.. Just an ornate collage of stories all set in this beautiful old neighborhood.

I could hardly describe how cool I thought it is that Lisa helped build this beautiful thing for her community. "This counts as building something for the world," I said referencing the input Richard Unger gave me a couple years ago.

Such an awesome walk.