Unshakable, unbreakable

 I’m neither thing, unfortunately, but I’m a little less shake n break than I used to be.

So goals. My last two decades have been all about setting goals for the boys. Now they need to set their own. Just like their stories are theirs to tell—or not. Agency. They both have it, and I’m sweating it out on the sidelines waiting for them to start exercising it.

Might be a wait. Need a distraction.

So one of my teammates announces that the International Dragon Boat Festival is in Taipei in 2026. As a team, we’d have to qualify at the national level to get there. I recall elder telling me in 2013 at the Cross Country Nationals that I’ve never been a National anything.

Challenge accepted.

The very worst that can happen is that I get into shape.

Game on.