The Purpose of Basketball

 One observation I can offer has me scratching my head:  basketball can be discovered LATE in life.  At least, that's how it is for Mike and me.  In all our 55+ years of marriage we have never once sat down to watch professional basketball more than once or twice a year and then only because there wasn't anything else available to do.

Yet this year we have been present (via tele) at almost every playoff game and thoroughly enjoying most of them.  I wonder at the change:  did basketball change? Or have we?  

Or did we converge in some thoroughfare of media that is subtly melding us together.

A few other new-found interests intimates that there is a movement underway in our lives that draws us to activities that never appealed to us previously and we have found new purposes at hand.

NOTE:  still waiting to hear from my doctor regarding 'the next step'.  Possibly in 2 days....is it melanoma or not?  

Wherever you are and whatever you're facing, I wish you peace and confidence.  And good news!

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