Above an end cap display of Legos at our local Target, there is a large slide with a Lego man sitting on it. The slide sits atop some kind of tiered stand that builds up from the end cap. The slide nearly touches the ceiling.
During one shopping trip, my two-year-old daughter wanted to go down the slide. She looked up toward the ceiling. "Dad, do you see the yellow slide?"
Me: "Yes, I see the yellow slide. It's too high. Too high for you."
Daughter: "I can try."
And she tried to climb up the end cap.
In a predictable response to an unpredictable development that unfolded on election day in November of 2024, I lost heart to write or finish any posts for a while. I just didn’t feel like I had anything to add, at least not for a while.
Inspired by that simple interaction with my daughter and witnessing her growth mindset, I came back around to writing in the context of all that uncertainty.
More so than usual, this one might be about wrestling and sports, at least occasionally, but it's not really about wrestling and sports.