Ken Lilyblad, KHS Class of 72, died last Friday. His family is currently seeking donations to pay for his memorial service. If you'd like to help out, click to this link: https://gofund.me/ed61f871
1. The weather has warmed up a bit. It wasn't raining. It wasn't snowing. The wind wasn't blowing. I seized the day and took a walk for the first time in several weeks. Oh, it wasn't a long one -- just about 3/4 of a mile to the mailbox in front of the now closed grocery store at Hill and Cameron, but it felt good to get moving again.
2. I watched a riveting matinee college basketball game today as the Baylor Bears seem to have come out of the funk they were in after a long Covid-related pause and defeated the energetic and sharp-shooting West Virginia Mountaineers, 94-89 in overtime. This was a scintillating tilt. Both teams played with passion, purpose, great skill, and determination. For a while in the OT period, I thought this game might go into multiple overtimes, but Baylor proved to be oh so slightly superior to West Virginia, even though it felt like both teams had won.
If this game and the Ohio State/Michigan game on February 21st in any way foreshadowed the kind of intense competition we will see when the conference tournaments and the national tournament get underway, we will be in for an immensely entertaining few weeks of March Madness!
3. Tonight's Tree House Concert was a special two hour production featuring Bill Davie at home in the Tree House and Jim Page from his home, performing from the Bobcat Den. I first saw Bill and Jim perform together in my living room back in the fall of 1993 and from that time forward, have enjoyed the variety in their songwriting, the ways their songwriting and playing compliment each other, and, more than anything else, the fun they have together, the great delight they take in their friendship and the respect they extend to one another as musicians. As is so often the case when I hear Bill and Jim, their performance transported me into my own private world of memories and good times. I enjoyed the music in the present, while also enjoying a little time traveling back to Sam Bond's in Eugene, the community center in Deadwood, OR, and other times and places brought back to life by Bill and Jim's songs and performances.
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