Wow!

So we’re all packed up in LaCrosse and about to head the 2 hours back to housing where I’m going to crash like a sack of potatoes.

I have so many emotions to unpack. The obvious joy for the corps. The pride I never hide in my son.

But that’s not where I’m starting tonight. Because 10 years ago to the DAY today… my family was saying our final goodbyes to my Mom at her memorial service. Davis was 12 then… it’s the first time I saw him “lose it” emotionally … he cried uncontrollably knowing that he would never see her again. For a loooong time during and after the service.

As we stepped out onto the track tonight and he climbed up on his Drum Major podium, I said a quiet prayer : …”Mom…I know you’re here with us…somehow, some way, please let him know.”. As I finished that short intercession, he did his salute, turned to the crowd, smiled and waved. I could feel my Mom there. I could see her smile in his. So okay…maybe I had a tear or two leak out.

And then all hell broke loose! That show! No way to appreciate it but live! Holy smokes! And as I watched Davis confidently conduct our boys, I whispered “thanks Mom… he misses you.” Because he does…we all do.

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So… switching gears…how fun is it that we’re not waiting on scores? That you won’t have to read me pulling scores apart every which way they can be torn apart?

I’m telling you… this s going to be a special show for a lot of reasons. For starters, the staff isn’t gnashing teeth over judge’s tapes right now, figuring out how to rewrite this or re-draw that. Sure they’ll modify it… but not chasing a number, but chasing hearts of the spectators watching it. How refreshing that has to be.

But most of all, I think these guys are going to make this a special run to Indy because they’re simply having fun.

I hope you all got to see it on Flo…

(but you have to see it live!)

And thus ends another tangled stream of consciousness…

Be proud. Be VERY proud.

Signing off from the V Bus…