Tilting at Windmills: Go, PHILLIES!!!!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Go, PHILLIES!!!!

There'll be no sleep here for, it looks like, hours!

We have the luck to live just two blocks from the major interesection where the fans congregate when a Philly sports team wins something BIG!

There are helicopters (about 4) circling around with one just hovering right over our house. There are, according to the late news update on TV, about 5000 people up at the corner. There are horns, fireworks, and generalized chaos.

It's all good!

1 comment:

Etha said...: oh wow I didn't think you're that close!!! what fun though ;)
Can you change the link to me please, as you know moregreenwool is gone gone gone.... I had to start from scratch, its very bare yet but will fill up I promise:
http://ethaschuette.com; October 16, 2008 at 8:28 AM

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Why "Tilting at Windmills"?

When I started this blog in October 2007, there was a story here about my connection to "Tilting With Windmills". Much of what was in that post no longer applies. Much other of it still does. So, here's the story.

When I was graduating from high school, more than 40 years ago, a group of my friend presented me with a print of Picasso's Don Quixote. They said it reminded me of them.

I get upset when things are wrong, even though getting upset cannot fix them. I dislike people who are cruel or petty or self-serving, and am frustrated that I cannot change them. I fight a daily battle with my health, although I know that every new day is another battle. I have a husband and close friends who support me, even when what I want or believe seems crazy.

So, the comparison with Don Quixote is perhaps an apt one. The story encourages me to take on the battles I see, even the hopeless ones. It reminds me to try to see the best in people. It comforts me that, in the end, even if my actions are futile, they are not meaningless.

I mean to try to continue "to dream the impossible dream".