inbetweens: A Greek Odyssey

Was sorta expecting a Day 3-Liverpool related image by artmaker here but he wasn't in the moment and settled for his notes, but i was prepared...told you I was planning only for tonight! =)

Original Liverbanner here. Spot the difference? =)

My very much over-quoted John Lennon quote:

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans".

For those of us who live constantly in danger of spending half our lives planning for the future (thus reducing the actual living by 50%) or for those who are thinking about planning for the future, this is rather prescient? I plan not to be one of those people, but I worry that I spend a lot of time planning that.

But I will do something different tonight. I will plan. In the wee hours of tomorrow morning, I plan to revisit old memories, emotions, recalling the anxiety, the sorrow then the ultimate bliss of Istanbul 2005. I am going to Athens tonight through the wonders of technology. I will seat for 90 minutes + + + in front of the set (wherever I will be watching), only stopping at half-time(s).

I will pray as I watched. I will not be praying for a victory though. I will be praying for tomorrow that whether we win or lose all red-hearted ones will unite for the finals of tomorrows.

(To quote the best Kop writer I know, Paul Tomkins - all his words!)

If we lose, we will be back and if we win we will also be back. (the win part is mine =))

Because in life it's always important to remember that what has been done once can be done again. Indeed, it's always important to prove to yourself just what is possible, through the act of actually doing it.

I feel that the ending to Tennyson's famous poem – about, and named after, Ulysses – captures where this current team resides: not yet back to the phenomenal strength and might of the Liverpool of the 1970s and '80s, but after a disappointing decade and a half, now able to forge forward once again, with character, with courage, as a dynasty is rebuilt:

"We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

(It was a toss-up between this and the words of that other great English poet, Delia Smith: "let's be 'aving yer!") This is our night, for both team and supporters. To strive, to seek, to find, and – as Milan discovered two years ago – never to yield. -Paul Tomkins-

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone...

You'll never walk alone!