KOBE: A Tribute

KOBE*

Kingly and keenly you killed your game with
Outstanding skills, flair and finesse.
Basketball fans and foes alike have
Esteemed and envied your excellence and eminence.

But at the end of the day ALL will come to
Respect, revere and honor your gift and talent.
You were and always will be one of the greats -
An ambassador, a star, legend and icon in sports -
Never to be forgotten even in death.
The world mourns and grieves your passing.

(After all, you are KOBE - King Of Basketball Elite)

*an acrostic

~ LV Letalu 2020

Fly Hiiiigh ...🦅

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

It's a little after 12:00 midnight here in my part of the globe, on this first day of the first month of this New Year - 2020.  Here's wishing ALL OF YOU - who frequent this blog - and YOURS a HAPPY and PROSPEROUS 2020. A belated wish for those of you in other parts of the world that are hours if not a whole day ahead.

I'd like to share with you the following thought that will be my guide for the New Year - and always.

"Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become over-involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high."

- Marion D. Hanks

My Samoan Translation:

"O faamoemoega faaletino e latou te foloina le tele o la tatou māta'itūuga. O le tauiviga mo mea tatou te mo’omia poo le sili atu fo’i nai o tatou mana’oga, e faaaluina ai le tele o o tatou taimi ma lo tatou malosi. Tatou te sa’ili fiafiaga po'o mea fa’afiafia, po'o le so’ona a'afia ma auai i fegalegalea’iga eseese, po'o mataupu faale-mālō. E moni, [tatou te] mana’omia tafaoga, mana’omia ona ausia tulaga maoa'e, mana’omia fo’i le fa'asoa atu; ae peita’i afai o le tau o nei mea uma o le tatou mafutaga māfana ma Keriso, ua matuā sili atu ona maoa'e na'uā lea tau."
~ Marion D. Hanks