Katie the Prefect

A piece about daughters and Harry Potter from my favorite sportswriter that turned out to be the best thing I have read in a month. I’ll excerpt the best part of this piece here in hopes that it will convince more people to read it:

“Something that disappoints me sometimes is that it seems exuberance and enthusiasm can be such rare qualities in people. There are so many discouraged people. There are so many people who appear to be going through the motions — lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them (I knew that Thoreau study would come in handy someday). The older I get the more I have come to believe that we can make such a difference by showing just a little bit of zeal, doing a little bit more, showing just a bit more of our spirit.”