Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I last checked in on the blog. I wanted to share with you all why I’ve been absent for the past month and a half. Unfortunately, my mother-in-law passed away on August 12th, 2024, and just six days later, my own mother passed away on August 18th. It’s been an incredibly challenging time for my wife, as her mom was her best friend. On a more positive note, my mother lived to the impressive age of 104 and would have turned 105 this November, so instead of mourning her passing, I chose to celebrate her remarkable life. Following my mother-in-law’s funeral, I traveled to my home country of The Gambia to take care of family matters. I’ve just returned, and I reached out to Tom to let everyone know what I’ve been dealing with. I hope he was able to relay the message. Despite the slow summer, I’m grateful to be back and not to have missed much in the Lakers’ world during this offseason. I’m looking forward to starting this new chapter with my wife and immersing myself once again in following our team. It’s good to be back!
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away.”
— Anonymous
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.”
– John Foster Dulles
“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on the shore and merely existed?”
— Hunter S. Thompson
“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I will always choose a lazy man to do it; because a lazy man will find an easy way to do it.”
— Bill Gates
“Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.”
— King Charles I
“The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.”
— Harold Wilkins
“When you go to court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.”
— Norm Crosby
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”
— Benjamin Jowett
“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.”
— Winston Churchill
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
— Mohandas Gandhi
