Click here or here to watch LM play the exciting game of soccer for 20 seconds. Then (i) reflect upon the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of hours her parents spent doing the same and the no doubt greater number of hours spent in transit for such purpose, (ii) consider what they could have done in the alternative and (iii) image the love they must have for her to have so spent such hours.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed.
But thy eternal sunshine shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal views through time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this website, and this website gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
Photograph on home page taken in June 2009.
This website last updated in April 2026.