loving to play

loving to play, originally uploaded by gawdessness.

trying to keep her joy in playing
untainted
even when the coach can't see what the team does well
and some of the parents LOUDLY grumble
"you aren't winning because you don't want to badly enough!"

of course they don't
they are ten
their job is to run hard, play hard, try hard, laugh hard with their friends and sleep hard afterwards.