Yesterday morning, Nick put me on the spot at the end of the 0630 workout for parting thoughts at the end of my last workout as a co-leader of #NP_BAL. You would think after three years of standing in front of 100+ people that this would be easy. Yet I don’t do well on the spot, and I’m particularly not good with inspirational words. However, I was pretty happy with what came out, which was something along the lines of “if this morning is your first time, if this whole thing makes you feel weird, then keep coming. We don’t do enough of this sort of stuff in our lives, and that’s the stuff that makes for good stories. So find your ‘yes’ people and stick with them.”
Adam and Melissa, you rocked it this morning – thank you. But there’s another name on that thread that was unusually absent this morning:
Did you catch it? Here it is again:
Shaun. The little brother that everyone loves to pick on (for good reason, sometimes), but is such a vital part of this community. You have been a consistent tagger in recent memory, even gaining a little notoriety from Melissa who requested assistance with learning how to tag this morning from the legend himself. I can only imagine that you were at home, perfecting your “otherwise-only-seen-in-teenage-girls” duck face:
