Monday, August 2, 2010

Seeds - An essay on the importance of small things

"Do not judge each day by the harvest, but by the seeds you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson

If our Tee Ball teams are tired, they lose all focus. Some of them may not have power over, sit on Smackdown are based. Some of them hang to the waist and let his long arms hang like noodles. Some are wild, snorting with laughter and competitions. Some cry.

If you think these youngsters in the nursery or have been> Kindergarten all day and watch 6 or 7 in the evening, most of them just want their Capri-Sun orange slices and roll from the mother and snacks in the back seat with a cloth.

It 'was the last inning of the second game in the first season my son's T-ball. The sun was low enough that made the colors seem surreal, and cast a long shadow, like 5 years, I will not forget wraps until the tea. He had spent the previous inning filling his baseball cap with the dirt from the center field andEventually he began to cry, so that the red soil in grazed his hat over his face and pink hair now flows.

I did not know that this special guy and I do not remember him in contact with the ball on his recent experiments with the eyelid. Measured by his tears, he would rather be elsewhere, but his father was a coach, he was there. Has acquired the crowd and found himself again as he caught my attention. Something about the look on his face wee boy who wanted to go beyondand give him a hug and let him watch the game with me from the other side of the fence, until it was over.

His father was beaten in the helmet, which has slipped. E 'beat glasses askew and not right on it, and to fit her small frame, seemed remarkably like a bobblehead.

He put the helmet, as he could and took the bat from his father that he was kneeling a few last minute instructions. The boy has focused its attentionexclusively on home plate as he tried to cover with dirt kicked in his little cave. This is when a spectator yelled from our team, "Heads up, team! This guy is a real Whacker!

The boy shook his head to find the source of the voice. It 'been a stranger. A stranger who expects to hit the ball hard. A stranger who expects everything with his powerful swing with astonishment. A stranger who saw him as a genuine, bona fide athlete.

This was nota guy who was probably so taken, and you could see happen, even from behind: A shift has taken place. Where once it was not believed capable of hitting the ball, suddenly did.

Now I wish I could say that swung that BAT and slugged the ball right out of the park. (He did not know). But he wanted was a bit 'bigger, and suddenly, perhaps for the first time, gave himself ballwhacker real action.

The man had planted a seed in his mind. And 'cool thing is that we do not know where the seed finally landed. All of a sudden, this unfortunate young child begins to think of himself as a man who looks at the amount of a type that the player was the other side better be careful.

Sometimes I think that is the most important part of education-only plant. You're smart. I am calm. I am calm. You are a beautiful. Are you a risktaker. It is possible to do this. It is certainly a gift for music. My, my, what aWhacker six.

The seeds of the plant to be honest - otherwise it is manipulation, and tell the children, and it is not good. You must also think that many of the seeds for the channel with the next rain washed away. However, it takes so much away from the pressure of thinking and not just scattered about where they end up maybe one day.

Life is so chaotic after all. There are all kinds of big and beautiful, bright and shining moments when I'm really at my best,but there are also many moments of children, who could not only a good decision. I'm gone. If I have much to do, and everything is overwhelming, I can only plant a seed that comes naturally to some of my head when I think on the right side, and I can be right where I am. If I have enough plants, some of them somewhere, are bound to respect. This is the only thought that goes through me, a couple of days.

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