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I went to the basketball game last night to see the Nets play the Heat.\u00a0 The Nets lost, and I don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u00a0 What I want to speak to is the walk I took near the end of half-time.\u00a0 Sometimes at this point in the evening at the game I will use the Meditation Room, but last night I decided to go for a walk in the concourse that circles the arena or as I call it \u201cmy walk around the block\u201d.<\/p>\n

No matter which way I turn once passing through the tunnel out to the concourse it seems I am walking against the flow, and last night was not an exception.\u00a0 The concourse was really crowded causing lots of sidestepping and maneuvering. I may have been the oldest person, at least visible to me, and one of few females.\u00a0 Most were younger men of color.\u00a0 I thought what an odd duck I must have seemed, yet I didn\u2019t feel odd at all.\u00a0 I felt mostly in concert with everyone in spite of whatever differences each of us harbors; we were all there for the game.\u00a0 I have this sense of community watching the game, but it\u2019s from individual seats kind of like lots of parallel universes.\u00a0 In the crowd, I felt immersed, a real part of the whole.<\/p>\n

As I walked farther on, I felt content mainly because I had eaten before the game, I call it dunch, a late lunch early dinner.\u00a0 So I was relieved not to stand in line and pay an exorbitant price for crappy food.\u00a0 I congratulated myself on my change in routine and stepped on.\u00a0 Then I had this overwhelming feeling of gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 I was grateful for having access to such an event and of feeling welcomed<\/em>. I thought of one of my row mates who told me earlier that he was so glad to see me, and I thought of the usher that works in a section where we used to sit who stops by every game to say hello.<\/p>\n

I thought about my mom at my age now.\u00a0 Going to a basketball game would have been one of the least likely options available or of interest to her for that matter. I felt like the luckiest person alive<\/em>.\u00a0 My strength here is appreciating being a part of and involvement in the community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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