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“ElkCity DEATH TO AMERICA... DEATH TO AMERICA t... DEATH To AMERICA! DEATH TOMER ws DEATH TOAMERICA! .. DEATH 10 | DEATHTOAMERICA! vue DEATH TO AMERICA!...DEATH TO AMERICAS... DEATH Serving Western Oklahoma Since 1901 TO AMERICA! Breaking news: Is this a sport? “DRONE STRIKE * The broken mirror why nothing made her feel complete. She was trying so Photo source: Metro Creative. hard to do everything right. Why were the right things not By Don Munsch happening to her? None of the Editor Glynda Lomax is a Chris- One meeting some years ago avenues she tried amounted tian author and podcaster found her relating her dashed to any more than a band-aid Try again, guys. who resides in the Ozark hopes over another failed fix for the woundedness she ‘That summed up my reaction to the International Olympic Mountains of Northern Arkan- relationship and her struggle carried inside. Committee voting Tuesday in favor of potentially bringing sas with her two very bossy to make sense of her life in The broken mirror had told breakdancing, now called breaking, to the 2024 Olympic dogs. She wrote her first About general. her lies and reflected back to games in Paris. Also included to the 2024 list are sport climb- Life... column in 2003 fora As our time to tall came her only shattered pieces of ing, skateboarding and surfing, sports that will be performed newspaper in Dallas.She is to an end, I watched her jam what used to be whole inside at the 2020 summer games in Tokyo. planning her next book. items into her bag in prepa- her. A broken guide cannot ‘These activities are considered sports now? Sport climb- ration to leave our meeting, help us make solid deci- Glynda Lomax ing, in case you were wondering, is a form of rock climbing. “t's not who you are that and I thought of how she had sions. She strived so hard for “The four sports that Paris has proposed are all totally in some semblance of sanity, of our brokenness. holds you back, it's who you spent her entire life trying normalcy, to cover up the bro- My heart was sad as I line with Olympic Agenda 2020 because they contribute to think you're not.” — Author to put all the pieces back kenness she walked in every watched my friend leave making the programme more gender balanced and more Unknown together, trying to make it day. But nothing had worked. that day, thinking back over urban, and offer the opportunity to connect with the younger all add up somehow. She had Nojob, no career, no relation- so many events that had generation,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement Years ago, I worked with spent decades trying to hide ship, no marriage, no child or happened to her because she on www.olympic.org. “The proposed sports are in line with awarm and caring woman her brokenness, yet all the paycheck or beauty treatment could never take the time these principles and enhance Paris 2024’s overall dynamic who had grown up under loose ends kept poking out had ever filled that void for to heal. Perhaps she did not Games concept, which focuses on inclusivity, inspiring a new very harsh conditions. Many when she was trying so hard long. And soon she was off want to look at the past long audience and hosting socially responsible Games.” events had transpired in her tomake everything fit. The searching again, still trying to enough to be healed, Healing, So it’s really about TV ratings, as Bach alluded to his state- younger life that had wound- more she attempted to hide make whole the broken mir- after all, requires time. And ment, although he mentions diversity, too. ed her deeply and shattered it, the easier it was to see, but ror she denied. it often requires reliving all Television ratings for the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio the image she carried inside she had told herself for so When we walk through life that we have been through de Janeiro [14.8] fell dramatically from the London summer of who she was. Like many long that nothing was wrong with a shattered sense of self, that we don’t understand how games held four years previous. The games in London [17.5] of us who have survived a that to her it was not visible no amount of wholeness is we survived in the first place, had the highest ratings in 16 years, when the 1996 games few rounds with real life, she atall. truly possible unless we first plus all the buried pain wait- were held in Atlanta [21.8], according the website TV By The had never been afforded the For years my friend had seek to be healed. Unless the ing there in the dark shadows Numbers. The 2018 winter Olympics also saw its TV ratings proper time to heal them. gone through her life trying to mirror is replaced by some- of our mind. plummet. Every so often, we would piece together one broken re- thing whole and beautiful, all She just walks on carry- Now, the IOC folks and TV networks suits can say people talk on the phone or meet lationship after another. Will it will give us are fractured ing the broken mirror inside, are live-streaming the games more and more, and that may some place and discuss our this one relationship make images and decisions made searching for someone who be true. But the television audience is still highly sought af- lives and loves and what had me whole? Maybe this job? based on this piece or that can mend it. ter. The way to gain more viewers appears is to increase the been going on since our last Or maybe that degree will do piece, but never on the whole “Iwish you could see what product line. In this case, the number of games. meeting took place. Some- the trick. Or this paycheck. picture of who we are. And no T see when I look at you.” Sport climbing? OK, maybe. Skateboarding? Count me out, times we would be doing Butstill she searched on change in our lives will ever Allison Pang, A Brush of but Ican see some athletic skills on display there. Surfing? better, and sometimes worse. unfulfilled, not understanding work for long that comes from Darkness Again, maybe. All of these are sports that will be judged on certain criteria. ‘As will breaking, I’m sure. But come on, Breaking-a sport? Spinning around on your head does indeed take some skill, but so does, um, walking on your hands. Will that be an Olympic sport next? I didn’t know breakdancing was still a thing, though. Art entries, nominations of Breakdancing hit the scene full tilt when I was in high school, about 30-something years ago. The dance sensation prompted some movies, including “Breakin” and “Breakin’ child advocates needed 2: Electric Boogaloo.” Having never seen either movie, I won't take any shots at either one, but I do find it amusing By Oklahoma Institute legislative calendar. Please of someone or a group that addressing and preventing that a movie called “Breakin” spawned a sequel. for Child Advocacy CEO Joe encourage children under deserves recognition, then childhood trauma. We will But what the heck? “Weekend at Bernie's” brought “Week- Dorman 18 to enter this competition please submit their informa- certainly be writing more end at Bernie's II,” and the Bernie character was still quite and to make their submis- tion at http://oica.org/awards/ about these studies as they dead [for the most part] in the sequel. For those looking to help sions this week. Artists can anne-roberts-peoples-choice- Ido digress here. Look, let me break this down: If the IOC the cause of child wellbeing go to our website at OICA. award/ to ensure they are progress. OICA is looking muckymucks want breaking, they can add breaking. Iam in Oklahoma, OICA has two org (https://tinyurl.com/ counted! The award for each forward to working with the just not sure how many people who enjoy watching swim- important deadlines coming kidsart2019) and download will be presented at the OICA House members discussing ming, gymnastics and track and field will tune in to breaking. up this week that we need the the entry form. Then mail the Heroes Ball on Friday, July children’s policy, and we But we shall see. public’s help and input on. drawing and entry form to 26th with our other presenta- hope the senators will file sev- First, we will be concluding our offices (2915 N Classen tions. eral reviews of youth policies our art contest - Envisioning Blvd, Ste 320, OKC OK 73106) Regarding State Capitol prior to their deadline next Have a letter to aBrighter Future for Oklaho- by Friday, July 28th. ma’s Children ~ a collabora- We are also about to close news, I am pleased to report that 145 interim study ap- month. tive effort with the Oklahoma nominations for the Anne plications were submitted by Iwant to conclude this the editor? Email Department of Health. We Roberts People’s Choice members of the Oklahoma column by thanking Rep. would like for young artists ‘Awards next week. This is our House of Representatives Mickey Dollens for receiving it to editor@ from across the state to enter award given to an individual pertaining to children’s aperfect score and perfect this competition. The top child advocacy leader or issues. We greatly appreci- attendance in our legislator ecdailynews.com pieces ofart will be displayed organization, as voted upon at Rainbow Fleet in Okla- by the people of Oklahoma on ate those legislators who focused on these issues and report card. He was inadver- or stop by 109 W. homa City’s Paseo District on social media. We are cur- who responded specifically to tently left off the list when we published the result. Thank Friday, July Sth during the rently receiving nominees OICA requests. They include First Friday Art Walk, and and our board committee arobust offering of subjects, you Rep. Dollens for your Broadway, Elk City. we will print artwork on each will select finalists by the end touching on everything from efforts this session to support of the 365 pages of OICA’s ofnext week. Ifyou know in-classroom discipline to Oklahoma’s children!