Great article about a pro football player's study of alt healing.

[Dora]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/sports/football/22williams.html

The player is Ricky Williams, who graduated from UT Austin, and then went pro.

[get the red out]

1. That is wonderful!

That article is good on so many levels. What an inspiring journey he is walking. I hope he gets the opportunity to interact with other players in his healing career, so many guys get into professional sports and have trouble handling the fame and money, someone with experience that could lend them grounding would be an asset. He just sounds so intuitive, what a path.

I was hearing just recently about an NBA player that was a star at the university here (took them to an NCAA title) now having a terrible gambling problem and loosing so much of what he earned during his years as a professional basketball player. Sad stuff, and he isn't a bad man, just lost. There are people everywhere with these problems, but the people we put up as our "celebrities" bring the reality home.

Ricky Williams has to be drug tested so much for the NFL, it got me wondering about why people like Rush Limbaugh, who are drug addicts and do nothing positive in the world and in fact do the world great harm, don't seem to have many penalties.

[Missy Vixen]

2. Dora, we have one in Seattle, too

This is an older article (and you have to scroll down to read it,) but Patrick Kerney of the Seahawks is big into alternative healing, too. (Plus, he's way cute. Did I say that? My bad.)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008078484_apfbnseahawkskerney.html