“Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” — Charlie Munger
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” — Mary Oliver
“The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.” — William Faulkner
This momma dog was brought to the Marin Humane Society to be surrendered and put up for adoption. The workers quickly realized that this dog must have recently had a litter and they contacted the original owner and convinced them to bring the babies to the shelter to be reunited with their mother.
The video depicts the happy reunion of mother and pups!
I think the best move would have been to bring them to the shelter together, but nevertheless, they are together now!
Reunion of momma and puppies at the Marin Humane Society. from Marin Humane Society on Vimeo.
“Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle.” — New Guinea Proverb
“I feel, in fact, as if I’ve been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. ” — Andre Agassi, former professional tennis player
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.” — Douglas Adams, from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
We continue our series of personalized (vanity) license plates in Arizona. To maintain individual privacy, we try to show as little information about particular cars as possible as long as we can reveal the license plate.
NOTE – License plate photos may have been archived for quite some time. The years indicated on the registration stickers DO NOT necessarily reflect the current status of any given plate!
We hope you enjoy these PL8ATUDES!
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
“The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.” — Barbara DeAngelis
“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.” — John Wooden
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.” — Alice Kahn
“You can’t be both awesome and negative. Choose one.” — Karen Salmansohn
“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“What you can’t say owns you. What you hide controls you.” — Lani Wendt Young, Scarlet Secrets
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.” — H.L. Mencken
When we were hiking along the coast of Northern California, there were warning signs about “rogue waves” and advisories not to turn your back on the ocean. There is a good reason for this as indicated in the video below. The ocean is unpredictable. Don’t put yourself or others at risk for the sake of photography.
From the YouTube Channel:
“On a beach day, I decided to take a photograph on a rock that I found gorgeous. I was not aware my husband was making a video. While I was posing, he started to scream about the wave, and it really took me by surprise.” -Rosangela de Silva
Occurred: February 29, 2016 / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”
“When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.” — W. S. Gilbert
“It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries which later appear so easy and simple.” — George C. Lichtenberg
“Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.” — Dee Hock
“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.” — P. J. O’Rourke
In Malcolm Gladwell’s Book, “Outliers”, he asserts that to gain complete mastery of a skill one would need 10,000 hours of practice. He did this by examining the work of generally acknowledged geniuses or noted masters. There are those who will dispute the number Gladwell uses, but few argue with the idea that to gain mastery, one needs to practice.
The problem arises with the fact that practice may not be as much fun as using the skill for its intended purpose. A basketball player, for example, probably prefers to play a game rather than practice free throws to assure a ninety scoring percentage from the free throw line.
What if there were a compromise between practice and play? Now understand that I am not suggesting that this is better than just practicing. What I do propose is that perhaps this would help some players achieve a greater success in pickleball by focusing on ball placement during revised play.
An essential pickleball skill is to be able to “aim” the ball and what I mean by that is getting the ball where you want it to go. If you can’t hit the ball to your opponent’s backhand or down the middle, you will have trouble beating average to above average players. Learning to place the ball is a key pickleball skill.
Here is one way to practice placing the ball where you want it to go. Play a game with one other person (Yikes, not singles), BUT… the ball can only be hit to the side of the court the serving player serves from and the diagonal opposite court of the receiver. The game must be restricted to just those two diagonal courts. Anything on the other side of the court is a fault. Play this game to a score of fifteen when starting this revised play because faults will be much more prevalent at the start.
[ Looking at the graphic above then, play can only continue while the ball is hit to the courts indicated with the black arrow during even numbered points and only to the courts indicated by the red arrow on odd numbered points! ]
Once players have become better at this and the points are getting longer, the game can transition to opening play to any side of the court starting with the third shot. In this variation of play the server hits the ball diagonally, the receiving player must return to the server’s court and after that normal pickleball play resumes, i.e. hit the ball anywhere in the playing area.
Both of these revisions of play will force players to concentrate on getting the ball where it needs to go and thus practice placement. It isn’t practice per se, but it is one way to get experience with putting the ball where it needs to go.
