My friends took me to an auction the other day where a restaurant was selling off everything. It was jammed! Lots of people there were just bidding on smaller items like kitchen ware and unique signs, but I could tell there were some guys there, the dealers, who knew exactly what they’d come for and what they had decided it was worth. Like the giant cuckoo clock that one bought for $15,000!
It was my big, political move: running for President of my college senior class, and it was close…really close. I lost like something like three votes. The outcome hurt a little, but not as much as finding out that some of my best friends hadn’t gotten around to voting that day. I didn’t have the votes of the people who counted most—the people closest to me.
Each Veteran’s Day, and every day, many people make their way to that long, black wall in Washington—the Vietnam War Memorial. A while back, a photographer decided just to hang out at the wall for a while and record what he saw there. And later, those photos became a beautiful tribute book. Early one morning he got down in the grass to shoot a new remembrance that had been left there overnight. It included an American flag, a Greek flag, a picture of a soldier, and a simple three-word inscription. Suddenly the photographer felt a gentle hand on his shoulder. And there standing behind him was an elderly man who just asked, “What do you think?” The photographer told the man how moving it was, and the man just smiled and said, “I’m glad. I put it there yesterday.” And that’s when that little three-word inscription suddenly took on new meaning…”Only One Son.”
If you see sports highlights of last weekend’s football games, I’m guessing they won’t show any huddles. Oh, yeah, huddles are important. It’s where you get ready to play the game, but hey, it’s not where the points are scored that decide the game.
If you want to make our friend Linda happy, buy her a 500-piece puzzle. When you walk in her house, there’s usually one spread out over a table somewhere. Sometimes it’s all together; sometimes it’s a work in progress. And right close by, of course, there’s the top of the box.
