Dear Editor:
RE: Arts vs. arenas, Feb. 7.
After a long day at work, Robin comes home to texts and emails that need to be addressed. The first game of the night starts in 30 minutes and softball needs her undivided attention.
Her husband hasn’t seen her in days; he’s down at the diamond for the third time this week, and it’s only Tuesday. Settling for a quick chat with her daughter on her way out the door, she is tired and has missed yet another supper.
She changes into her executive shirt and heads down to see her team. The teens greet her with a boisterous “hey coach” as she smiles and hands them the lineup. These teens aren’t getting into trouble tonight. They don’t feel alone. They have purpose and direction, if only for two hours; and their confidence makes all the difference in her eyes.
She wraps up the night at 11pm by closing the booth. Short of volunteers this year, she’s bitten off more positions than she can chew; but soldiers on, miraculously, and without choking. Today she was an employee, mother, wife, coach, concessions booth manager, convener and league president; but the day is not over.
She still has emails to answer before going to bed and starting all over again tomorrow. She is CW Softball. It happens to be a sports organization. And she is not lazy.
Michelle Belonzo,
Fergus