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Basketball season has begun again and I continue to learn lessons for life from basketball. From basketball I have found that the greatest learning experiences are from mistakes or looking back on regrets. Like in basketball you don't learn as much from the games you win or the games you play really good in. You learn more from the games in which you made lots of mistakes.  Because of the loss and the regrets about how you played you look back and think of what you should have done differently. You also learn when you have hard times in the games because then you know what you need to work on. It is the same in life; the experiences you learn the most from are from the regrets or the hard times you had. You may not learn your lesson right away or during the hard time in your life but when you do learn your lesson it will make you a stronger person. Just like if you work and grow from your mistakes in basketball you will become a better player or a stronger player.

Nov. 11 weekly post

Being the youngest of ten children, I have found that there are many advantages. For one I am spoiled; I usually get what I want. The remote control is at my disposal. :) I have very few chores. I have eaten out more than any of my other family members. Unfortunately it also has it disadvantage. When my eight older brothers come home and start to tell stories of their youth I know new rules are about to be created. The stories may be funny but the consequence for me are not fun. My parents have created a rule for almost everything. They are suspicious about anyone and everyone I might spend time with. They seem to worry whenever I am out of their sight. It's a good thing I love them because of their love for me they don't let me get to far away from them. When you are the oldest in your family you need to think about what you're doing because those who follow will probable suffer the consequence more than you will. I love my sibling to death but man do I wish they didn't do so many stupid things growing up. Than I wouldn't have so many rules.

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It is funny how things change over the years. Like Halloween, back in the day it was trick for a treat. The person would do a trick to get a treat. In another place they called it trick or treat. So if you didn't give them some kind of treat they would do some kind of prank or trick on you.  Treats were usually homemade or were homegrown fruit. Costumes would hide the identity of the prankster and it could be blamed on demons, devils, or some other evil ghoul.  Now there is no trick to it; we dress up in commercial costumes and get commercial treats.  Children still say trick or treat but really it is just give me a treat. Things are always changing with more knowledge or with how lazy people are becoming and with the creativity of the individuals who commercialize holidays for financial gain.  No matter what the cause the world is changing. Everything changes from generation to generation but this Halloween I had the opportunity to listen to some of the stories and traditions that my parents had. It was interesting to me how different we do things now. In school and even in my family.  Traditions are changing and those traditions that existed in many small isolated communities and in many families are disappearing.  I guess that is progress but in a way it seems sad.