You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory … - A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Alive, Baseball, High, Memories, Passage, Twilight

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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Alone, Come, Motivational, Softball, Spring, Summer

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Act, Civil, Education, Hippie, Society, Teaching

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Baseball, Ghouls, Life, People, Unserious, Work

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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