I didn’t watch the Super Bowl but I’m aware of the back and forth and the final score.  Before 2022, the 49’ers would have won with the first overtime score,  but new rules changed the game.  Now, the 49’ers are discussed as though they are losers when they went to the Super Bowl and the game was as close as could be.

I’m reminded of a writing class I took with Pam Houston.  Her book was on the NY Times best seller list and she was thrilled to share the news with a friend.  The friend asked, “What number?” and then, “How many weeks?”  Houston knew then this was a no-win as perhaps only the Bible has that top spot.  The win is within.

The money that was spent on this game, on advertising, betting, attendance, is unfathomable, and meanwhile we have a measure on our ballot, measure A, that will cost each household possibly $300.00 a year, though depending on when you bought your house only $30.00 a year.  It’s to augment our deteriorating schools.  It needs 55% to pass, and probably will pass, but it’s strange to consider what is spent on weapons and war, and what the world could be with cooperation, not competition.

Meanwhile increasing light invites sap to rise as the earth turns toward Spring.