Given where I am on my journey…I take nothing for granted. Not a day. Not a week. Not a month.
I honestly didn’t know if I’d be around for this week-end a year ago. But here I am feeling like OU’s first ever sixty-six year old Cheetah-Back for the Sooners.
You never know. Little minor miracles do happen ever so often in this very cynical world in which we live.
Obviously…my basketball heart is with the NC State Wolfpack today as they hope to beat the Purdue Boilermakers and make Championship Monday one to remember for the ages.
In 1983, I was twenty-six years old. Jimmy V was the NC State coach as those miracle Wolfpack somehow defeated the ‘unbeatable’ Houston Cougars in perhaps the gretest upset in college basketball history.
I remember crying watching the ending. Storybook and beyond.
Jimmy V, along with Ernie Johnson, unknowingly are my cancer journey mentors.
Near the end…Coach Valvano said, ” If you do four things every day it’s going to be a good day. Do these four things and everything else will take care of itself. Cry, laugh, be kind, and take the time to give thanks for all the wonderful things which have already happened in your journey.”
I try to live that every day.
Go Wolfpack!
Have a beautiful Final Four week-end.
MJ