In my nearly seventy years of paying attention, I have never observed that the meek got much of anything. Big or little, it’s always the go-getters, the hard-workers, the brightest and best:
And who will inherit the earth?
Well, here in the Northwest, it’s sure to be the Himalayan blackberries and mason jars of jam left behind because we were unable to eat all we put by.
And I believe 1880 will be inherited by the wisteria — wild, crazy, flamboyant. Meek? Not so much.
Forty years afterTitle IX in the United States, every team entered in the Olympics, sent a woman in some sport. Of course, they don’t all rank with Missy and Gabby. What fun it is to watch athletes doing what they love to do.