We Used To Try To Help

The National Youth Sports Program ⇒ (“NYSP”) is a program that provides a 5 week fitness and life skills program held at various college campuses for children of lower economic status. The participants are provided with transportation, a free medical examination, 2 free meals a day, and a free shirt.

The program used to funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ⇒ beginning with the Johnson ⇒ Administration through the middle of the W. Bush ⇒ Administration and administered through the National Collegiate Athletic Association ⇒ along with volunteering schools. Funding now is left up to the schools and interested outside groups.

Specialness

The word special has a number of more specific synonyms for all of it’s different meanings. Such a list can include unique, specific, noteworthy, peculiar, better than, and a temporarily lower cost. An NYSP would be considered special in the noteworthy sense because the life skills portion of the program would highlight self-esteem. An older non-NSYP participant would seem arrogant to wear this shirt because the phrase would be taken to mean that the wearer thinks that they are better than other people.

I do not think that I am better than anyone else, but I am unique. I know that I am a cool guy that runs an awesome site about my free shirts. I get along with myself great. For as long as I have known myself, I have done what I could. I do not know anyone who does what I do quite like me.

The intended audience for this site, those that care, are groovy people with good taste as well. I know this for a fact of opinion. Caring about the right stuff and doing the right things is what awesome people do.

I do not know each and every person that reads the site. I wish that I could. Not everyone who reads this site communicates with me. Dear reader, I bet that you are probably cool as well. I am sure that you are the best at being you.

The robots that comb this site likely are operated by people that are only concerned with money, but maybe if I ever go to know those people I could find out what is unique about them. Though knowing the people that operate the computers, I would hope to find out additional information about their systems.

Paint & Suffering

Typically, I choose not to wear shirts that have been defaced. I have decided to be tolerant of the markings due to the limited extent of damage in this instance. Let it be known, though, that I

When Donor & Receiver Sarah* presented this shirt to me, the shirt already had “Nicole” written in puffy paint of the bottom right side of the shirt. I have no idea who Nicole was other than someone that did not want a shirt anymore. Nicole did not seem to think that this shirt was special enough to keep.

There is a red splotch of paint that appeared during a party at a warehouse. I was part of a group painting and Donor Christina* got some paint on my shirt. I did not approve. Non-donor Adam pointed out that this particular red spot looked like a flame coming from the left arms of the “Y”. His observation provided me with a new context with which to consider the shirt.