November, 2021 - C.E. Lemieux Jr

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As crazy as it seems, we are at that time of year again. Spring seemed a blip on the radar. I just got used to summer and it was gone. In just one more month this year will be slipping on by us. I was just getting used to summer and it went away. Youngins’ listen to your elders when they tell you the years are going to get faster and faster as you grow older and older.

Just beyond this season where we gather to give thanks for our blessings, our families, and for life in general, we move on to the Christmas holiday. A hop skip and a jump later, and we are starting a brand new year. I’ll have more to say about that in a future post, but for now I want to share my thanks with you.

Sometimes I struggle for something to say here. Other times the thoughts just pop into my head. In this case, I saw a name, and that name caused my mind to travel back in time, some forty-six years. It was a memory, the kind that just seems to wipe out all the other stuff around it. But first, a little background.

It was 1974 when I attended my first live football game. We’d lived all over the country, but other than watching football on TV with my dad. I’d never even seen a football field until we moved to that small Oklahoma town. I immediately loved the game, though I’ll admit I was never that great at playing it. Still, something about those pads and the helmet, a jersey with your number on it, battling up and down the field in the grass and the mud. It was just cool.

Month: November 2021

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