Daily writing prompt

Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why.

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We to often put professional athletes on a pedestal because they can catch or throw a ball, these individuals make millions of dollars for playing a game, something most of us would love to do. Often these idolized athletes are in reality really shitty people, some make efforts to give back but not enough of them for the opportunities and fortunes they have been given.

A few in the past have used their notoriety to advance a cause and those are the ones I respect.

Billie Jean King had spent the 1960s and early 1970s campaigning tirelessly for parity for women in sports, and in 1972, she turned her focus toward helping to pass Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in all federally funded school programs, including sports.

Muhammad Ali the heavyweight champion lost his title when he refused induction into the military during the Vietnam War. On April 28, 1967, reigning heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. military. “I claim to be exempt as a minister of the religion of Islam,” he said.

Many called Ali a coward but he stood up against an unjust war and was stripped of his title because of it but he didn’t back down.

I respect these to for the stand they took and using their gifts for the common good.

Daily writing prompt

How do you relax?

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Really don’t know how to relax… I just try to not take life so seriously.

I would love to give up the F word but due to the pandemic of stupid in the world it is one of the only words that adequately portrays the feeling of frustration I have.

Daily writing prompt

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

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The question ambiguously asked the question ‘from home’… That is a blanket statement that presumes that you went to a destination and then returned to a point of origin.

I have been all over the United States, Hawaii & Alaska, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, Mexico, Belize, and Jamaica. Some of those were on vacation but many of them were because I was relocating to that particular location. When I was in high school we moved to Germany so that wasn’t technically ‘travel’ because I did not return to the destination I have originally departed from. My mother is British so I have been in England a number of times but we were living in Germany so it wasn’t a far trip because from Germany to England is actually closer than New York City and Richmond VA.

I traveled all over Europe when I was there on the Euro-Rail (trains) but again the distance is relative because Europe is relatively compact compared the the U.S. .

Everyone reading this is now asking if I am ever going to answer the question.

Honestly I furthest I have travel and returned to a point of origin was from Phoenix AZ no Nova Scotia Canada. My in-laws have a rustic house on the east coast of Nova Scotia. I is beautiful and quiet and the fresh Atlantic seafood is amazing. I was there in the summer so the temperatures were very pleasant, I am fairly curtain that a winter trip would not have been as enjoyable.

Thanks for tolerating my rambling that barely got to the point.