Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Friday, August 12, 2005

LACKING LAX A LITTLE LATELY

I am definitely going a little whacky without lacrosse players to yell at.  I have been spending unprecedented amounts of quality time with my family, though.  That is a really good thing, and I revel in much of this time spent, but playing horsie ride all summer has not been that motivating from a journalistic point of view.  There is, however, nothing quite like watching your very own children grow from day to day, and change in front of your very eyes, like magic.  The concept is a cliché, but it is a cliché for a reason. 

TWO DAYS IN DADE

I have been in Miami Beach for the last two days with my whole family (5 of us).  We have had a great time.  It can't be too hot or too humid for everyone in the family but me, so the climate was perfect for them.  I am actually not minding the one-two punch of the heat and humidity my own self. Winter in Colorado will be here (there) soon enough. Besides, or should I say plus I haven't seen so much skin in one place since God knows when, maybe Woodstock.  I will say that some of this skin was more than I needed or wanted to see, but it is ultimately a free country and it always takes all kinds.

There is a lot of "hanging out" going on in Miami Beach, particularly on the southern part of town known as South Beach.  It is kind of a Venice Beach East, but for the most part South Beach has much more style than its more famous California counterpart.

There is an insane amount of "beautiful people" out and about in South Beach, too, and that is for sure.  I have to admit that I spent more time noticing the ones that leaned hard toward exhibiting as much of themselves as possible and in the manner befitting the so-called softer sex, as in girls looking particularly girlie in a very hot climate. 

I do not wish for what I do not have.  My wife looks as good as most any of them.

A RICH TRADITION

Miami Beach (not Miami) has a wonderful Art Deco heritage (1930's American building and living style).  I like being there very much.  I think it (Art Deco) is pretty much my favorite "American" art form and whatever "style" I may have had when I was a woodworker was influenced heavily by this genre.

As we drove around Miami Beach I couldn't help but notice and be intrigued by other aspects of its "rich" cultural and historical aspects.  I asked if anyone in our Toyota mini-van had ever heard of Jackie Gleason or Arthur Godfrey as we passed streets bearing these two famous mid-twentieth century names.  No one of course had.  I have a Peruvian family, and two of the four are under 5 yrs. old anyway, so the question was a dumb one in the first place.  However, I thought about it further.  I'll bet that no one on my lacrosse team knows who these two American icons were either.  This certainly dates me. 

THE OVER-AGES

Today we arose and drove up the boot to the much more geriatric part of Florida where Mom resides.  Here there are numerous places and communities that require you to be at least the age of 55 years old in order to move in.  It's nice that I can still be too young for something other than the dreaded senior citizen discounts.  Anyway, my mother lives in one of them (55 and over), and when the neighborhood sees my group of 5 show up it must seem like the locusts have returned.  Oh well. 

IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, I HAVE SOME SWAMPLAND IN FLORIDA….

It occurred to me that my mother is now living on a nice little piece of that Florida swampland that everyone used to joke about having available for purchase back when I was a kid.  Somebody must have actually gotten rich on all that after all, or maybe it was his heirs, because the return was certainly not overnight.  They do have these sand cranes walking around on the streets here, and that does add some elegance to the scene.

The houses here at the community called "The Savannah" (I think Savanna is just another word for swamp) are manufactured elsewhere, brought in, and assembled on the lot.  Everything is hunky dorey until hurricane season, when a few of them get randomly "blown away" each year.  Then "they" just come in, sweep up, and bring in another, or the parts to fix up the old one.  Ah, the cycle of modern life. 

ALL TIME SCORING LEADER SCORES again

Pat Shanley (CSU -A- 1998) is getting married tomorrow. I wish I could be there (Denver). He is CSU's all time leading scorer. He looks like he could never score a goal even if you gave him a running start. He is from my first CSU team, and he is one of my favorite players that I have coached. I wish he and Monica a lifetime of joy.

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