Showing posts with label the story continues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the story continues. Show all posts
4.01.2010
Seven hundred and thirty days later
Claire: There was a power in those moments that I never tried to understand, but just let it sweep me up, clear knowledge that nothing else in the world was important except for the life we share and how this expressed that.
3.28.2010
12.30.2009
11.10.2009
The start of the season
Claire:
Row by row seat by seat standing muttering building up the whole place folks with canes kids bouncing on the balls of their little feet hands swaying and we hear it because we know what to listen for disjointed guitar chords barely there blending with the buzz unrecognizable until one loud rock-heavy strum and we know we know ...
11.05.2009
On emotional investments
Here’s Kyle over at The Mid-Majority:
Makes me think of when I met with Brandon Williams in New York in June of ’08 for the book. He said that during those 10 days in March he kept getting asked: Did you EVER think THIS would happen? Maybe most people thought he’d say, No, never, but his answer, he said, was the opposite: Yes, always.
Brandon, Class of ’96, who came to Davidson via rural Louisiana by way of Phillips Exeter, committed to play for Bob McKillop when Bob McKillop was coming off a 4-24 season. By Brandon’s senior year the team went undefeated in the league. And by March of ’08, by that weekend in Detroit, by the night before the game against Kansas, he went to visit his old coach in his room there at the Dearborn Inn, and he knew what his old coach was feeling, he could see it and he could hear it, because he knew what he was feeling, too. Because he knew where they had been.
Did Brandon EVER think THIS would happen?
Yes, he told people. This was the whole point.
Says Kyle:
When I hung up, I sat alone on the couch with an weird feeling in my gut and chest. I didn’t ride the whole ride, so I didn’t get the full high. I didn’t deserve to celebrate at all.
Makes me think of when I met with Brandon Williams in New York in June of ’08 for the book. He said that during those 10 days in March he kept getting asked: Did you EVER think THIS would happen? Maybe most people thought he’d say, No, never, but his answer, he said, was the opposite: Yes, always.
Brandon, Class of ’96, who came to Davidson via rural Louisiana by way of Phillips Exeter, committed to play for Bob McKillop when Bob McKillop was coming off a 4-24 season. By Brandon’s senior year the team went undefeated in the league. And by March of ’08, by that weekend in Detroit, by the night before the game against Kansas, he went to visit his old coach in his room there at the Dearborn Inn, and he knew what his old coach was feeling, he could see it and he could hear it, because he knew what he was feeling, too. Because he knew where they had been.
Did Brandon EVER think THIS would happen?
Yes, he told people. This was the whole point.
Says Kyle:
If you have a true understanding of loss, you’re better equipped to recognize victory -- whether it comes or not.
10.20.2009
The Davidson Project
What it’s about: This is our effort to tell a small piece of a big story that never stops. Basketball is the window here, it is the entry point, but the story -- the story is of a place and its people.
9.28.2009
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