Dylan Larkin is the ultimate Michigander:
〽️ born in Waterford Township
〽️ played for U.S. NTDP (Plymouth)
〽️ attended Univ. of Michigan
〽️ has played entire career in Detroit
〽️ won 1st place with USA in Milan
#GoBlue | #LGRW
Fascinating to me how Jack White decides to flip the “generational rock star” switch every now and then on national television, and then go back to running his label or building some furniture.
My father once told me the secret to a happy marriage.
“Stay out of the kitchen. Let her handle the holidays.”
I was 19. He was in his recliner.
My mother was cooking for 14 people.
She’d been up since 5 AM.
He’d been up since the football pregame.
I didn’t think anything of it.
That’s just how it was.
Fast forward 20 years.
I’m in the recliner.
My wife is in the kitchen.
She’s been up since 5 AM.
I’ve been up since the pregame.
My daughter walks by and I see her watching.
Not the TV.
Her mother.
Then me.
Then her mother again.
That’s when it hit me:
She’s taking notes.
My father taught me that holidays were for men to rest and women to work.
He didn’t say it.
He showed it.
Every Thanksgiving.
Every Christmas.
Every Easter.
The recliner passed from him to me like an inheritance I never asked for.
This morning I woke up at 4 AM.
Not for content.
For the turkey.
My wife found me in the kitchen at 6.
She didn’t say anything.
She just stood there.
Then she cried.
Your kids are taking notes.
Not on what you say.
On where you sit.
The recliner is an inheritance.
Be the generation that stands up.
I think the most miraculous story I heard while being in London KY was from an elderly man.
We both stood next to each other, not saying a word, just taking in the scene and processing it.
After a couple minutes of silence he says “ it’s astonishing that that used to be my home” as we look down at a red car on top of what used to be part of his home. I said “with all due respect sir, how are you alive?” What he would go on to tell me was nothing short of a miracle. He explained to me that him and his wife woke up to the tornado sirens and realized they had no time to drive to safety. So they simply sat at the kitchen table and held hands saying goodbye and that they loved each other. He proceeded to tell me how at first he could hear debris falling from the sky and hitting the roof. Then a loud roar, followed by each and every wall crumbling and being stripped away from them. Nothing was left standing except for one single thing. The table they both sat at. “It’s truly the work of God as to why I can sit here and talk to you” he finished with.
If this isn’t a story about the wonders of tornadoes I don’t know what is. I wish I got the man’s name and phone number, but in the off chance he sees this. You sir gave me a story that will stick with me forever. Thank you for sharing your story.
“To be successful at anything, you don't have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren't…consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts."
~ Tom Brady
Pastor Lorenzo Sewell reclaims the land for God. What a moving prayer. I felt the Holy Spirit in your prayer. I don’t know where your church is but I want to go there. Thank you Pastor and thank you Jesus for choosing @realDonaldTrump to do your work.