25 July 2007
This is one of the saddest sights I’ve seen in some time. Which, in a retrospective look at the previous sentence is probably a good thing.
Stuffed toys represent, for me, that childhood innocence that is so quickly and easily lost as we grow “more mature.” Who among us has not at some point in their life gone to sleep with that precious plush animal tucked gently underneath an arm? To see this bear, lonely & abandoned on a bench makes me weep for that innocence, for that hope, for that child.
On a brighter note, it’s Fantasy Football time (that’s Associated Football, not NFL or College or Arena Football, but instead that beautiful sport that Americans, and a growing number of Brits, call “Soccer”). My initial first go-through line-up looks like (from top to bottom):
Robin Van Persie
Dimitar Berbatov
Dietmar Hamann
Ryan Giggs
Scott Parker
Cristiano Ronaldo
Matthew Taylor
Stanislav Varga
Kolo Toure
Olof Mellberg
Marcus Hahnemann
I’ve been doing this with Yahoo!Sports for some years now. If you have the slightest desire to join, send me an email and I’ll give you an invite for the private league I’ve created.
Cheers.
~KR (25 July 2007)
Listening to:
The Irish Rover by The Dubliners
on Spirit of the Irish
