Dear San Francisco,
I share a love hate relationship with the city by the bay. I
root for the team in orange and black, I love the numerous restaurants and
dining options that it has to offer and the tourist aspect of the area still fascinates
me to this day. Things I hate about the city include; the bastion of hope that
it holds towards liberalism, the plentiful number of panhandlers that flock to
the city and continue to deteriorate it with filth and crime and most of all
that damn smell! (You need to experience it because not even this literary
genius can put into words the exact way to describe it). But you know
what????.....Sometimes you just get it right. In case you’ve just recently woke
from a coma or been evicted from a cave in parts unknown last Thursday the
Make-a-Wish-Foundation along with the City of San Francisco and numerous other volunteers
granted Miles Scott, a five year old boy from Northern California suffering
from Leukemia his dream of morphing into his hero Batman and saving Gotham City
from the like of the Penguin and the Riddler. The Make-a-Wish-Foundation bequests
numerous requests and the fulfillment of wishes to sick and terminally ill
children across the country and is by far one of my favorite charities because
of this. The everyday people, businesses, celebrities, athletes, etc. that work
for and participate in there program is the human aspect working at its finest.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself what did you do today to make someone’s life
better??? Well for over 12,000 people the answer was to grant this child the opportunity
of a lifetime. The world we live in can be a cold and unfair place at times. We
win some and we lose some in this poker game of life all the while learning
from its adventure. The reality that I’ve always struggled with is when kids
are dealt an unfair hand from the start and have to defy the odds to experience
the smiles and cries of their adolescence on through adulthood. Stories like
this and others constantly bring a smile to my face and a tear or two to my
eyes (Yes, this red ass has a soft side). The cost to pull this all off for the
city was to the tune of $105,000 which is by far the best money that has been
spent in San Francisco since the inking of Will Clark to his first pro contract
(God I miss the “Thrill”).My hat goes off to Mayor Ed Lee, Police Chief Greg
Suhr, US Attorney Melinda Haag, the Giants and everyone else who turned an act
of kindness and the fulfillment of a child’s dream into something much more. It’s
moments like this that reassures your faith in the human spirit and that there is
still a lot of good amongst us…..
PS. Happy Thursday on this cold and blustery day in the
north state peeps. I hope you’re staying warm and enjoying yourself and
remember……”It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me”… That’s
not me but that is some real at you in November.
#batkid #sanfrancisco #milesscott #kcco
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