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Great piece by Univ of Michigan basketball player Yaxel Lendeborg
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4 days 29 minutes ago #34696
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He wrote this article for The Players Tribune -- which has a lot of great writing.
I was not familiar with this player, but it's just a good story, IMHO. And the kid clearly has reflected on the last 5-10 years of life and allows himself to be vulnerable.
How My Mom Saved My Life
www.theplayerstribune.com/yaxel-lendebor...-basketball-michigan
I was not familiar with this player, but it's just a good story, IMHO. And the kid clearly has reflected on the last 5-10 years of life and allows himself to be vulnerable.
How My Mom Saved My Life
www.theplayerstribune.com/yaxel-lendebor...-basketball-michigan
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3 days 21 hours ago #34697
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“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits”. Albert Einstein
Great read. As a retired KU prof, this really resonates. It is exactly the reason I wanted to teach. I wanted to be a HS science teacher. My mother, said , you can do better. I did, but it took a mom with an 8th grade education to push me in a gentle but assertive way. When I messed up, and did I, she helped me pick up the pieces, correct the wrongs, and put me back on track. Thanks Mom.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits”. Albert Einstein
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3 days 19 hours ago #34699
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It'll feel better when it stops hurting
What an amazing story. Thank you!
It'll feel better when it stops hurting
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3 days 16 hours ago #34701
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Superlatives fail me.
A little tear in my eye reading this story on the 35th anniversary of my father's death.
Yax's mom reminds me of Dad, doing stuff behind the scenes to help whenever he could.
I'm not a particular fan of Michigan, but I'll be pulling for Yax to make Mom proud - and as a cancer survivor myself (labeled "cancer free" but still taking long term recurrence suppression medicine for another 2 1/2 years; still, all in all "one Lucky Bastard" as I was recently accurately assessed), pulling for Mom all the way!
Thanks for the story, port!
A little tear in my eye reading this story on the 35th anniversary of my father's death.
Yax's mom reminds me of Dad, doing stuff behind the scenes to help whenever he could.
I'm not a particular fan of Michigan, but I'll be pulling for Yax to make Mom proud - and as a cancer survivor myself (labeled "cancer free" but still taking long term recurrence suppression medicine for another 2 1/2 years; still, all in all "one Lucky Bastard" as I was recently accurately assessed), pulling for Mom all the way!
Thanks for the story, port!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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