By the time you read this, the 5-at-10 will either be en route to Lake Martin, Ala., or already with an open CoCola. Happy birthday, ‘Merica.
We’ll have the mailbag tomorrow, and we have one open spot – and always a spot or three for hate mail if you so choose.
It’s with the typical excitement and the somber realization of finality that we head to Lake Martin. My in-laws have lived on Lake Martin for as long as I’ve known them. The Mrs. 5-at-10 and I got hitched there, my kids learned how to swim and ski there, one semi-regular around these parts learned how to drink CoColas there.
It’s a special place for sure.
And it’s been sold. It’s simply too big for the in-laws, and they are downsizing. So there’s that.
It’s been a special destination for the entire family for sure.
To a quick 5-at-10 so we can get ‘Merica’s birthday party started for real.
Halftime speech
We asked Wednesday – on July 1, the halfway point of a 2020 that has kicked our collective tail in almost every way, shape and invisible viral microbe – which TV/movie coach should deliver our halftime speech.
Well, because we move words, here’s my potential script for such a speech
OK, huddle up.
It’s halftime. We have suffered through the worst first half I’ve seen in my 50 years of doing this thing called life.
We’re down, but we’re not out. We’re way behind, but great comebacks are borne in moments surrounded by great obstacles.
But you know where we are. All of you.
Because as daunting as this first half has been, whether we know it or not, remember it or not, what is going on here in America belongs to all of us.