After forty years my faith in America is renewed. There is hope for the future, but there is much hard work ahead. We are all in this together, I hope everyone understands the magnitude of what we must do to transfer these dreams into reality. It will take unity, everyone working together and sacrifice.
13 Comments
Paul Davis
Vern-
I, for one, would prefer your blog stick to what it and you does best: provide insightful comments about how to achieve athletic performance.
Mark Day
I agree Paul. Vern, I sure hope you do not think that the man that blames farmers on America’s health care crisis, does not believe in self protection and would allow a woman to have an abortion at any time is going to fix this country.
Jonathan Hewitt ATC
I too agree with the above 2 gentlemen’s comments.
Jay Johnson
Why do you read Vern’s blog?
My guess would be you come to hear Vern’s unique voice regarding something you care about, something in the realm of athletic conditioning/coaching/athletic development/pedagogy/etc.
You likely come to the site not only because he’s extremely knowledgeable (a rarity for web based training resources) but also because he as an authentic voice, a voice formed by experiences across a variety of sports and across a wide spectrum of athletes and across several cultures.
This blog is valuable because of who Vern is and if he wants to make one post every 4 years asking people to “transfer these dreams into reality” then I think you owe him that editorial space. Both candidates used the word Change to describe both problems and the challenges ahead; my reading of Vern’s post is that he’s encouraging you to do the same, to learn to work with others that, up to this point, we may have had irreconcilable differences. And on that note, maybe the you three – Paul, Mark and Jonathan – should simple stop coming to the site if you’re unwilling to do so because the voice that is challenging us to rethink everything from the social role of sports in our culture to training in three planes of motion for all sports is now encouraging you to embrace Change.
d s edwards
Vern,
I do not agree with the comments to this post.
It’s your blog, write what you want. It’s obvious anyone can write whatever they want in a response.
If they pay for your blog then they can have a say.
If not, write what you want.
I hope no one wants to suppress thoughts or feelings just because they don’t want to read it.
Write what you want.
Kristof
Vern,
As a legal non-citizen I wholeheartedly agree with your post. Although the American dream has been mostly elusive to me, I feel that the results of the election will steer us all in the right direction.
And, btw, thanks for pointing out the Michael Pollan article in the NY Times a few weeks ago! I would have missed it otherwise.
Patrick McHugh
Vern: keep writing whatever you like. What makes this blog interesting is that you share your interests with us. This is not just a blog about Functional Training. It is a blog about ideas. We don’t have to agree with yout ideas, but I appreciate hearing them.
Dave Chesser
I recently fought this battle on my blog too. I wrote a post fair to both sides but many people were offended that I mentioned politics at all. As if I needed people to tell me what I could put on my own blog.
But another way to look at it is that many people are fatigued by politics. They come to sites like this as an escape from all that.
With that desire, they often forget that blogs are voices for the people that write them. Too bad.
matt
vern, some of these guys need to let it go. the people have spoken and that final. they should deal with it or move to another country.
Scott Curry
Great post Vern. We have to pull together. There are going to be lots of sour grapes for a while. It’s always been my experience that people who always think they are right and are not very self aware also make for poor losers.
Scott Curry
As for Matt’s comment, I never thought I’d hear someone that *didn’t* blindly follow Repulblican ideology tell someone that they had to move to another country. 😉 My hope for this country has definitely been restored.
Jonathan Hewitt
So why in the name of free thought and differing ideas then, have some of the comments from those who freely choose to think differntly been censored or deleted? Open mindedness? Sounds like the “fairness doctrine” to me, silence those who disagree.
What happened to welcoming different perspectives?
matt s.
sorry scott, apologize about saying people that should move out of the country. That wasnt necessary or what this blog is about.Vern i apologize to you as well.