Live from Kentucky

I am writing this post while i am in Baltimore but my post has to deal with my time in Louisville Kentucky. I spent this past week hanging out in the hometown famous for making slugger bats and the grand horse race for the roses--the Kentucky Derby at Church Hill Downs. It was a relaxing week spent getting to know what life in Louisville Kentucky is all about. I also took in many high school girls basketball games--the best of the best hs senior players...while at this event I saw major d-one head coaches...from Delaware, Temple, Memphis, Duke, Xavier, Ohio, Ohio St, Mich, Mich St, Norte Dame, Indiana, Wisconsin, Louisville, Florida, Akron, VT, Miami, West Vir, Boston...to name some of the very very many. After hanging the day in New Jersey/ NYC I am now spending the week in Baltimore Maryland/ Washington D.C.

One a more personal note I was reminded today just how precious life is and how it can be over or changed forever in the blink of an eye. When mergin onto to road that leads to the airport traffic was back up for miles and was at a stand still...we then found out an accident happen at 6am that closed down the 4 lane highway...as we got closer we learned the accident had been fatal and claimed the life of a local 24 louisville man on his motor bike. Just a simple july day...a friday fun day....I couldn't help to notice that nothing in my life had changed...yet while we sat in that car someone's was over and someone's world or worlds were forever changed-were tore apart and shattered...for a brother, son, grandson, boyfriend/husband, father, friend, co-worker left his home this morning having the world in the palm of his hand only to find out moments later that world forever taken from him. How can life change that fast??

How is one's life measured?? by the journey one takes...its a process that you always view...how one reacts? how one views? where one's path leads??? or is it the final outcome...the destination...where life finally leads them before taking them from this world? its soo over whelming to think about let thats all i can think of?? Tonite as I looked up info on the accident I also learned that two little girls were struck by a car ages 4 and 5 and killed just up the road from chruch hill downs..home of the kentucky derby...on their way to mcdonald's after swimming lessons...their life at that moment at that age really was so simple...they were living their everyday life and just like that...it was over before it begun...it doesn't make sense...which is what i have the hardest part with...because i know that life isn't suppose to make sense...and its when we try and try to make sense of it...that we will never know the answers to our questions...This past week I have lost a friend that I went to school with, Ben Lenzen-26- from a work related accident and all i can say is...too young and too soon. He had the world in his hands...he had married his high school sweet heart only a year ago...he had so much yet to do, yet to see....OR is that the plan we just saw for him....maybe as humans we only see the black and white to life....and maybe thats just why its not up to us when one's time is done...because if its up to us...our time would always be and never be done. A day later my manager/friend Jessica lost her father-in-law very suddenly...The four of them (jess, ryan, ry's mom and dad) were playing in a golf tourny...something ken loved to do...and on a clear beautiful summer day where it seemed life couldn't get any better...it all changed...he was joking around and smiling and just as he was looking at his son and wife he took his last breathe and was gone...In one single second....

Within this past week..62, 26, 24, 5, and 4 year old...in one single second...one life gone while so many other lives changed forever--so many people left with just why's...yet I know there are countless more that I don't even know about...One week where I was taught just how fragile a human life is, just how precious each moment is....for we don't know...today could be our last day, now could be our last moment...today your family could be that family you never thought this could happen too...YET we can't live in the style like we are prepared for this to happen--but we must remind ourselves that living each day is a gift....we must trust in our journey and have faith in our journey...and not let the questions that we can't find the answers to lead our journeys. My thoughts go out to these families as well as all those who have lost a love one and their life was forever changed. May the angels lead them all into paradise and may we find comfort and love in the love they gave us and the memories they shared with us...