The ride.

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~ John Wooden   I wonder how often we stop short of following a path of happiness and success due to being… too short, too tall, not educated in a thing, or not having experience in another. How often do we disqualify ourselves because we don’t meet some conventional set of requirements? I mean, what if we started looking at life through the hopeful lens of what we can do instead of the prohibitive narrative of

Long live great music, from the dives, clubs, arenas… and even the polo grounds.

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in her 20s before rescuing her family and some 70 or so others from bondage via the Underground Railroad in the 1850s and early 1860s. I learned about Ms. Tubman one February in 2nd grade when we studied famous African Americans. I was inspired by her courage and service then and it stayed with me. I celebrate this modern-day Moses for doing what most of us can only dream of: securing our own freedom and then helping to lead others to theirs. Tr