This morning I had to work at the Orleans fit club so I set the DVR to record the Red Sox celebration parade. I planned to work out after working, then come home and climb into my chair and watch it for the full four hours. It was a busy morning at the club, so I didn’t have much time to realize the parade was actually happening then, in real time, until this popped up on my phone:
My Boston daughter and her friend were right at the gate in front of the Hynes Convention Center. I sent her a quick “very cool!” and went on with my morning.
Upon arriving home, the parade was long over, I showered and snuggled into my chair and hit the play button. I wasn’t there. I wasn’t even watching it live. But I realized I was watching much more than just a baseball team celebrating a win. As I listened to each player approach the microphone at Fenway it soon became apparent to me this was a team that wasn’t out there celebrating their own victory. It was a team giving back to a healing city. This victory wasn’t for them. It was for the people. Two million people were cheering along the parade route.
Oh my…it just dawned on me my daughter is there in that crowd – and my mind – like so many others – went back to that day in April with a crowd just like that. I was glad I was watching a recording and my daughter was back home safe, because if I had watched it live, I would’ve been nervous with fear the whole time and wouldn’t be able to take it all in.
The pain and suffering of that day still lingers. Even to me, way down here on the Cape, watching a recording. The vibration still shakes the heart. Then the duck boats stopped on the finish line in front of the library. The players got out and put the trophy on the finish line and draped a Boston Strong T shirt over it. Then they sang God Bless America. It was right there the fear left my heart and in it’s place I felt the love and bonding that took place in that city today.
And so, as another day goes by, thank you Red Sox for not keeping the victory for yourselves, you won it because all season long you were playing for the people of your great city, instead of glorifying yourselves, you played to heal others, and…I have written.
For my readers: my daughter sent these videos so you could feel and hear the love that rang in the air in Boston today:
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