Heart. Broken.
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken." CS Lewis My heart was broken tonight by seven kids with a basketball. I am the assistant coach of my son's basketball team and the head coach (my dad) was out of town which meant I was in the hot seat. Let me interject here, in the interest of full disclosure, that I have never coached anything before and only played basketball in a very casually organized way on a club team in England. England! Where basketball is like cricket is to us. Most people have heard of it, but no one really knows the rules and certainly not the fundamentals. Because the kids are just finishing up mid-winter break and many families are out of town, I knew we were going to be down a few players. Earlier this afternoon I got an offer from a boy one grade above our league to sub for us tonight. I was torn - if we had this player we would have a much better chance of...