No journey worth taking ever goes in a straight line, because that would be boring and predictable. What fun is there in that?
There have to be hills to climb and crevasses to dig out from, there has to be pain to make the joy feel even better, and there have to be good gals and bad guys and everything in between.
There must be experiences lived and experiences survived because it makes getting to the final destination all the sweeter.
It has been a tremendous privilege and a wild ride to be on this trek with the Raptors, a basketball team now adopted by most of a nation.