Focus

Focus

They were talking soccer

play positions

and strategies,

he'd knelt down next to her

created a little world of

just the two of them

and their talk.

He worked to balance coaching and fathering.

She was ecstatic about the upcoming game, "Daddy! Daddy!"

Her voice carried easily through the house, rising as many feet in

pitch as she was in height.

"Yeah, honey?" his face, alight with anticipation, welcomed a

break through moment of revelation about her position, attack

strategies, or focus on the game and what he got was, "There's a

squirrel on the trampoline!"

Mom Jamie Lynn Heller writes poetry from her home in Lenexa.