When all is said and done...

What does anyone have?
The knowledge that they did whatever it took to be the best most industrious and happy decent person they could possibly be in this plateau of our lives.
Our reputation is a non-tangible and when we scar that we all know it is hard to regain that undeniable need to be respected once again.

Although, Joe Paterno, coach for Penn State, lived his life as mostly a decent person and did do what he believed to be right and true.
Whether unfamiliar with how to handle a very horrendous situation that he had not encountered ever before, and sadly learned too late that his way was insufficient for the parties involved…the man did some incredible things in what he did do for so many other young men over his decades of working at a job that he loved.

We are all saddened with this outcome of his death from lung cancer at the age of eighty-five this morning and when it occurred before anyone could know his reasoning for not doing more…but, as many of us must realize he was a man of a different generation and to him it was something that was not discussed, but more than likely did happen and not knowing what or how to handle it, many of us might believe that it could be true. He was a multifaceted man, as all are, who had much good in him.

Not unlike different generations’ usage of scandalous language of racism, but more scathing since this was a criminal physical act of harm to a young person at an adult’s mercy. Any sexual assault/rape is a power play by a coward who only wants to take away that from whomever they perpetrate that vicious act upon.
But the man, Coach Paterno, did not witness it himself, and the one that did should have intervened to stop it as he saw it; in my mind/ way of thinking, and why has no one asked that of him?
The true witness did report it but did not stop it, hmm?
Perhaps, my information is not complete, but if it is than why Sandusky was allegedly allowed to temporarily able to get away with it and to allegedly harm more young men?
Much more will be known in the future; for that I am sure.
All the information is still coming in and the previous alleged victims are coming forward.
I am like the many who receive information from the media; I say keep it coming but always check and recheck so we know the facts too correctly, you owe his family that!

On that away from my recent nightly norm, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly to count your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS Gabby Giffords just get well!
PSS we did not go to the Home and Garden Show, since we decided we would stay home to prepare for our number one son’s visit tomorrow to help Hubby with a major home repair job.