Joyce the Scrapper

Who would have thunk it, I am cheering for the Phillies.  Why?  Because they are playing the Yankees in the World Series and I love to hate that team.  In all fairness to the Yankees, they are a good team.  But I like the underdog.  The scrappers in life that have the odds stacked up against them and they prevail.  Plus I am a Red Sox fan and therefore there are simply two right choices in baseball, either my team or the team that beats the Yankees.

Scrapper is a great word for one that is a tenacious fighter, doggedly maintaining until they succeed or die trying.  It is the baby that comes into the world with a loud cry, not a whimper.  It is the little kid that keeps falling off the bike, scraping her knee, but finally learns to ride.  It is the three-legged dog that loves to run.  They simply have more heart than most.  And the irony is that scrappers don’t see themselves as such, because they strong down to their core but don’t really know that about themselves.  Scrappers are not fearless, they are full of fear and yet keep trying in spite of it.  I have known some folks like that and I admire them tremendously.

My friend Joyce is one such individual.  And she will hate that I am writing about her because she was born in Brooklyn.   But Joyce is a scrapper.  She is also one of the best darn cooks around.  I have traded her a cashmere scarf for a Bouche de Noel at the holidays.  She is already starting to freak out about it, but I know that she will rise to the occasion and make good on it.

Joyce dealing with some stuff that has gotten her down, upset her and has her questioning.  But this is what I know about Joyce.  She will not give up and she will plug right along, head down into it all.  She might not notice that we are all cheering for her.  In fact,  she will be working so hard on moving forward, one bit at a time that she will not notice all of us admiring her will to keep on her path of what is right.

She is in the 5th game of her world series and behind 3 games to 1.  She has the home team advantage and the fans are supporting her all the way.  She will win this one and move to another day to win two more after this, in their house.   She will forgive me for making the analogy of her being like the Phillies , given that she is from the Brooklyn.  Besides, her team moved to LA.