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š Full transparency here. IāM NOT GOING TO SPRING TRAINING TO SEE THE NEW SEMI-SHEER UNIFORMS š¤ lol (humor words, that was last week)
BUT, I love Spring Training! The fans own it. Diehards come from the north and spend their spring breaks saluting their heroes. Itās easy to get star autographs. Stats-keeping is its own sort of competitive sport in the stands. The volunteers at our ballparks (Cacti Park, Roger Dean Stadium, & Clover Park) are the some of the kindest humans youāll ever meet. Plus you may catch one of my first pitches!
āPut me in Coachā (the John Fogerty song)
šµ YET CENTERFIELD HOLDS A CURIOUS MEMORY FROM MY SHORT STINT AT SOFTBALL. MY DAYDREAMING SKILLS DIDNāT SERVE ME HERE. MY OVERCOMPENSATION REACTIONS DIDNāT EITHER. THE SOFTBALL SOARED STRAIGHT INTO MY LEFT EYE, GIVING ME THE PRIVILEGE OF STARTING 7TH GRADE WITH THE SHINER GOTH/EMO VIBE. I just called it āthe eye of the tiger.ā Would you believe I made all-stars? I basically only hit infield grounders or bunts. Yikes! BUT, I sprinted the bases like the Usain Bolt of the softball world. I was the āDESIGNATED HIT RUNNER.ā Iād steal bases like a maniac š
I learned a valuable lesson that I think will serve you well. When you focus on your unique strengths, even if theyāre not predictable or mainstream, you elevate those around you. Iām convinced it has to do with how God has designed you. If I kept striking swings against the wall trying to be a slugger versus a runner, no bueno! By focusing on what had the most design for, I mastered a unique weapon for the team. Granted, I also learned softball wasnāt my forte overall. š¶āš«ļø It did give me great strategy on tackling life with originality!
āGo Marlins!ā
STRIKE STRONGEST BY STRENGTHENING YOUR STRENGTHS.ā
š« So thereās foot speed and then thereās jet suit speed. Today does this work in space? Are alien plants a thing? The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a project that kicked out with collaborations with scientists in the last few months. Itās a space telescope in development that could take the first direct images of exoplanets. HabEx, among other things, could show possible plant life that may actually look red in space. If extraterrestrial photosynthesis is a thing, alien plants would show chlorophyll as a red-edge.
āZinnias in Space Grown by Scott Kelly in 2016ā
STUNNING RED is the color of an orchid found on an extinct volcano in Indonesia last year. Itās one of 74 new plants and fungi noted by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 2023. Kew named everything from an underground āforestā, to a violet-like flower growing in Thailand, to fungi growing on waste in South Korea. Giving scientific names to species is the first step to putting protections in place and explores new uses for humanity. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67930823
š Soon delivery drivers are going to be scrambling to deliver flowers for Valentineās Day. But one New Orleans UPS driver stops to āsmell the flowersā in a different way. He takes selfies with all the dogs he runs into! He started posting the feel-good pictures and now heās gone viral. Jason Hardesty says heās never had an issue with any of the dogs heās snapped shots with. He says that it doesnāt matter the breed, āat the end of the day we all just want to be loved and adored.ā
āHeart paws!ā
Itās the WONDER we bring to the world that elicits the beauty it holds. Interacting with hope, faith, and love excavates the next-level energy of life! Living things respond to life. When you bring your heart and soul, curiosity and imagination to your everyday, you extract the exquisite! Itās the last day of January. What are some of your most joyful moments of the past month? What are you bringing into the next? I canāt wait to find out! Have the best week! š
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