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All That I Know
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John Taglieri

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Get it Get it
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The Reveals

Tonight fear is on my mind. It was recently described to me like a baseball pitched to a batter. What do you do when the ball is pitched?

You step into the pitch. Face your fear.

Many of us don’t.

And you can take it deeper. We can try and watch the nuances of the pitch, like the curve of the ball or speed at which it comes. This helps you recognize the pattern and better deal with the fear.

This is my challenge. To step into the pitch. Face my fear.

Today we all did flips in the pool… here is some of the fun.

Here is me.

Lisa

Cameron

Evan

This is a picture of our garden this morning. It is absolutely gorgeous. Lisa has put so much love and effort into it. The sprinklers just turned off before this shot and I couldn’t help thinking about the way water has such and purifying and cleansing effect. Today is a good day.

The Easter Bunny came to the Smith house this morning.

Lisa made this wonderful Easter bread.  We were up pretty late getting it ready for Easter morning and I think it came out great.  It had a hint of Orange in it.  Yummy.

In Church this morning we were blessed with sitting in the 3rd row of the choir.  Right up front. :>  Facing everybody.  Kinda.. I was actually the closest to Fr. John.   We were part of the Choir at times.  It was very cool and special.

Lisa and I after Mass.

For dinner, Lisa prepared a wonderful Lamb that she had been preparing since Holy Thursday.  It was incredible.  She made humus and this great yogurt, dill and cumcumber sauce.  Leftovers for sure.

I hurt.  I know I may be worse tomorrow.  But, I had great fun today gettting this way.   

Today Lisa & I took 7 12 year olds to play paintball. Yep, with guns, masks and paint.  Lots of blue paint.   We bought 500 shots per kid plus I think they bought 500 more at the end.   

We went west of Newberry to First Strike PaintBall.

It was very fun and at times a little painful.  I got hit with an “expert” gun in the left ribs.  It actully hurt.  Experienced gamers wear padded clothing for protection. 

It was not really what I imagined.  It was basically boys (and a couple of girls) playing war in the woods with various forts, bunkers and sand hills.    Just like when we were kids in the neigborhood, but this was with C02 & paintballs!!Beautiful North Florida landscape.  It reminded me when I was a kid visiting Gaineville and playing in the woods behind the trailer where Fred Bear Archery currenty is.

The boys loved it.  We played from 11am to 4pm.  We played serveral types of games but mostly the object was to shoot other players.  All of the games were supervised by “refs” and we played with several other “teams” who appeared to be much more experienced.  For one thing, they had semi-automatic guns with larger air tanks with curly hoses running to a secure belt that also contained extra tubes of paintballs.  With a tap of the finger these babies fire dozens in seconds.  It sounded like jihad practice.  :> We had only 1 builtin tank (mine failed during one of my last games and hence the shots to the ribs.  I was a sitting duck.) and 1 hopper for paint. 

 Here I am (back right in black) with Cameron’s friends..

Cameron, Kevin, Chris, Michael, Matt S, Matt M and Keegan

Me & Cameron