RE: 4 years out.
August 5, 2021 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2021 at 11:10 am by DocIllinois.)
The expression here is very much appreciated and understood. My father's death at a young (his and my own) age left scars, yet enabled an awareness of some bare realities of life.
I can also relate to the football team story; my 6th grade teacher did the very same before Chicago Bears games. (This practice enabled another realization - that sports weren't earnest endeavor, so it was positively silly to govern something as important as academic matters around their outcome. I protested thereafter.)
Which, in the end, was poor protest timing for the 1985 year; the Bears lost only one game and won the Superbowl. Its a funny old life.
I can also relate to the football team story; my 6th grade teacher did the very same before Chicago Bears games. (This practice enabled another realization - that sports weren't earnest endeavor, so it was positively silly to govern something as important as academic matters around their outcome. I protested thereafter.)
Which, in the end, was poor protest timing for the 1985 year; the Bears lost only one game and won the Superbowl. Its a funny old life.
