https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2006/03/05/to-the-tarheels/ Author of Healing Maddie Brees & Wait, thoughts and practices in waiting on God Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2006/03/05/to-the-tarheels/#comment-535 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:06:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2006/03/05/to-the-tarheels#comment-535 Thank you, tworivers, for your genuine compassion for J.J., thought I truly doubt (he being a Duke basketball player and all) that he deserves it.But maybe you have a point. Maybe you are recognizing– and kindly pointing out to the deluded powder-blue masses– that even bad guys are real people. They often, for example, love their families. Maybe (gasp!), as you suggest, Duke basketball players and their coach are Real People, and maybe they do love each other. But come on, could that possibly be True??Maybe it is. And maybe there is love in hell after all.Or maybe Duke– and Cameron Stadium– is not hell.There’s a thought.As for March Madness, and a potential (and inevitable though-maybe-not-in-this-season) re-match, well, I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.For now, I remain Far Far Away. And the Sunday Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said NOTHING about UNC/Duke basketball.Imagine!

]]> https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2006/03/05/to-the-tarheels/#comment-534 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:08:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2006/03/05/to-the-tarheels#comment-534 Thanks for the laugh. I just read this entry aloud to one of my office mates. Enjoyin’ your wry wit.

]]> https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2006/03/05/to-the-tarheels/#comment-533 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:16:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2006/03/05/to-the-tarheels#comment-533 I am not a Better Person because the Tar Heels, in their mealy powder blue, won that game. But I am a happier person in some ways. Not deeply happier, nor Joyful with a capital ‘J’ – but happier. And I am genuinely sorry that JJ had a bad game on his senior night. The Duke players clearly love their coach – they do. He has a charisma and, evidently, a genuine love for them, that makes them love him. And they are always sorry to see the end of their college careers come to an end. They long to do well for him and for the fans – and it did disappoint me (slightly) that JJ did not have a better game. (And if he had, would we have won? hhmm)But no, I am not a better person. And yes, Coach Williams Rocks. But … when you return from Far Away, I think that maybe they will have played another game, and whereas this game may have faded ever so slightly in people minds, that other game (if they indeed get to play it) will be fresh. And maybe it will be the same game, with the same outcome, and the same powder-blue sentiments will be floating about, when you return from Far Away. Maybe.

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