Of Basketball Floors, Friendship, And An·o·nym·i·ty :: MAXINE

Today is the day before an anticipated "landslide" election where the airwaves are filled with vile, slander, and puffery.

Ads paint Republicans and Democrats alike in the absolute worst light and it all can become a bit disheartening as to the prospects of actually having human relations of lasting value.

With this as a backdrop, here is a story about a gift and the real value of why people bother to communicate and share some time together throughout this life we live.

This from the Sports Section of the Los Angeles Times -

FLOORED - By Bill Plaschke - LA Times - November 5, 2006

An anonymous donation will introduce generations of Trojans to Jim Sterkel, and comes as quite a surprise to Mrs. Sterkel

A most amazing story in this city of stars, a sports centerpiece decorated in average, laced in ordinary, painted in a nobody.