On Homecomings
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Homecomings
San Angelo - Lately I’ve been thinking about homecoming. The local team had theirs last night and won in a defensive struggle. I tried to find out about the other team, but it turns out they sadly lost. By the way, why do we always do that? It’s been 9 years and I still don’t like to think about Game 6 in the finals.
However, the story doesn’t end there. In some religious cultures, a homecoming is seen as finishing well. It’s a time to come back and celebrate. I’ll be honest, I never wanted to go to a homecoming. I’m an introvert. I hate people. Well I don’t hate people. I just prefer my puppy. Still, I think it's essential for both. It's all about ending well.
Here are some of my most popular posts to catch you up
Mission: why you should support my mission and I’m not talking about the baseball team nor real ones. Btw, hi Ron!
On my relationship with my dad: As I am sitting here in west Texas, it is July 3, 2022. There has been a school shooting just mere hours away from my hometown. The Supreme Court just overturned Roe V. Wade, and it seems like insurrections are fomenting every day from all sides. That is why I decided I needed to get off the sidelines. And give back to my community, my state, and my country. To serve those who look like me and especially those who don’t look like me. I loved my Uncle Noe. I miss him daily. He was and will always be a role model for me. He showed me that people that have my background could succeed. It’s given me the courage to pursue something like law school. Even with all of that, my real hero and the best person I know is my Dad, and it is about time I honor him by serving the underserved.
On my best friend: Additionally there are those moments that happen in your personal life. Something shocking happens, and you remember where you were but there’s maybe not a strong emotional connection to that. The first real time where an event like a celebrity death really affected me was when a helicopter crashed down in Calabasas in early 20. I was not a fan nor did I necessarily like this celebrity but when I found out, I had to go walk around Central Park to try to process it. At the time, I worked at ABC News and to be in that office working with employees who knew the person who perished was eye opening. In this particular event, Washington Post reporter, Ben Golliver, wrote about how fans flocked to where the event happened and how a humble minister was there to provide solace and comfort to those hurting. I think about that pastor a lot and try to do the same thing in my daily life.
Why am I talking about this on a post about my best friend? Well because of May 23/24 of this year. First, on the evening of the 23rd, I decided to go to Jack’s (by far the best convenience store in San Angelo) to get a drink. However, before I could get there I was in a serious accident that totaled my car. After I went to the hospital, I came home and slept the rest of the morning. However. when I woke up, I saw that an event had happened at an elementary school very close to me. Even worse, one of the victims was from San Angelo and my family knew someone who taught him. When things like this happen, I try to avoid everything and lie in bed, trying to not think about what just happened.
On 9/11: “A second plane has hit the second World Trade Center. America is under attack.”
Those were the words coming out of the school intercom at Cornerstone Christian School in San Angelo, Texas at around 10 AM central time on September 11, 2001.
That it was spoken by the school secretary whose husband was currently stationed at the local Air Force base only added to the gravitas of the statement.
On manu: There are people in your life that you meet or get to know from afar who seem to know everything. My dad refers to this kind of person as those of the renaissance. I think of myself as a jack of all trades but a master of none.
However, these people whether it was Mr. Sustek, my high school science teacher, or someone like Manu, are jack of all trades, Master of seemingly all of them.
That is Manu.
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