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A giant of a man, with a deep, booming voice and jovial demeanor - that is the first impression Reverend Thurmond Coleman, Sr. made on others. It was natural to immediately feel at ease in his presence, but to hear him talk - no one could ever forget that, and one’s attention would be completely drawn in as he spoke, just hanging on to every word and how it was uttered. Whatever he said was riddled with a smattering of “Amens” and “Fine, Fine, Fines.” One could not help but adore him.

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A TRIBUTE TO REVEREND THURMOND COLEMAN, SR. A giant of a man, with a deep, booming voice and jovial demeanor - that is the first impression Reverend Thurmond Coleman, Sr. made on others. It was natural to immediately feel at ease in his presence, but to hear him talk - no one could ever forget that, and one’s attention would be completely drawn in as he spoke, just hanging on to every word and how it was uttered. Whatever he said was riddled with a smattering of “Amens” and “Fine, Fine, Fines.” One could not help but adore him.

education was of the utmost importance to compete intellectually and economically. One of the gyms at the David L. Armstrong Recreation Center is named in his honor, as is the street where his parsonage was located. In the 1990s, when Skyview Park, which had been established by James Wilson in the 1940s for black children to have a place to play, was renovated and about to be renamed, Coleman was instrumental in making sure the name stayed the same. He was a civil rights activist and worked tirelessly to bring blacks and whites together as a community, not only in Jeffersontown but in the entire state as well.

To list all of Coleman’s achievements and the honors bestowed upon him would take far more space than allotted here, but suffice it to say that he led First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown for 45 years, and he was very proud to have played a major role in establishing the Jeffersontown little league, high School and library, feeling that a good

Thurmond Coleman was born on September 19, 1926, in Logan, West Virginia. On the advice of his father, Reverend C.W. Coleman, Thurmond was urged not to work in the mines but to do something more with his life, so he prepared for the gospel ministry by attending Lincoln Institute, Central High

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School, Indiana Extension Center and classes at Southern Baptist Seminary. He was ordained at Clay Street Baptist Church in Shelbyville, Kentucky, and in 1955 he began pastor duties at First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown, where he would remain active as pastor for the next 45 years.

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Reverend Coleman brought with him his wife, Cora Elizabeth, and their five young children, Jane, Thurmond Jr., Thelma, Charles and Donald. At a 2009 meeting of the Greater Jeffersontown Historical Society, Coleman noted, “When I come to Jeffersontown, the church, they said, ‘We’ll pay him $35 a week, and parsonage.’ I said, ‘Well, I’m not coming for the money,’ and the man said, ‘Well, that’s great - well, we’ll give him $30 every week.’ I’ll never make that mistake again!”

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whether or not one agreed with his stance on matters. Coleman took care of his community - not just his flock at First Baptist Church, but the entire community. Reverend Coleman passed from this life on September 8, 2019. It seems fitting that he died right when the City of Jeffersontown the community he served for over 60 years - was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of

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• 2 nd Strategy: Look at your schedule and determine where you can create time to devote to your health. Is it as practical and convenient as possible? Find three times a week you can commit to at least 15 minutes for yourself.

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Michael Higdon has been in sales in one facet or another his entire life, having worked in corporate sales, telecommunications and audiovisual corporate business. In 2003, he transitioned into real estate and immediately took a shine to it, selling 30 houses in his first year. Though he utilized the same principals he had practiced throughout his career, he knew that selling homes was a “people business.” “I’m not afraid to ask a lot of questions and find out what a seller’s motivation is,” says Higdon, who has lived in Jeffersontown since 2001 and grew up in the Middletown area. “I like working with individuals to help them make a change in their life.” In the past seven years, he’s found a niche market that he really enjoys —working with probates, executors and administrators. Though a lot of realtors shy away from such sales, Higdon has the compassion necessary to make the process smooth and seamless. Having experienced grief in his own life, he offers clients genuine empathy.

“They’re overwhelmed and don’t understand the process,” he says. “They may not even live in this town.” Higdon gently advises next steps, which involves cleaning out the home, lining up contractors, and readying it for sale. Higdon recalls a time when he met with a client who was getting offers for his older home for $70,000 and $80,000. Higdon suggested that he pull back the tattered green shag carpeting and when he did, he discovered beautiful pine floors that hadn’t seen the light of day in five decades. The walls were also a dated shade so Higdon advised that the client spent $2,000 to rip up the carpeting, shine the floors, and paint the walls.

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Born and raised in Louisville, Diana Grisanti came from a large family who equally adored sports and theatre. In fact, Grisanti admits that she sometimes uses the word “halftime” instead of “intermission” and vice versa when speaking about theatre and sporting events. As a teenager, Grisanti attended Commonwealth Theatre Center in Louisville (formerly the Waldon Theatre).

Theatre of Louisville where she had the joy of meeting other playwrights. She also studied for two years in Mexico. While there she wrote a play called “Semantics” that got her into graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin. “Semantics” is about language, wealth, US paternalism and the limits of good intentions.

with Mike Brooks (the founder who stepped down in 2006), Grisanti and her husband took over as co-artistic directors in 2019.

“The program at UT Austin was sort of two programs in one,” Grisanti says. “As a writer, my colleagues were playwrights, poets and fiction writers. But then, on the theatre side of it, I was collaborating with designers, actors and directors. So I had multiple communities in one.”

Though Theatre 502 doesn’t have a dedicated space, they hold the majority of their performances in Baron’s Theater, an old magic theater located on Main Street.

“That’s where I found my people — other theatre nerds,” she says. Though she had fun acting and singing, deep down she knew she didn’t want to pursue performing as a career. Then she stumbled upon “the literary side of Following graduate school, Grisanti making theatre,” and knew immediately she returned to Louisville with her husband, had found her purpose in playwrighting. Steve, also a playwright. They began working as Playwrights-in-Residence with She studied dramaturgy and playwrighting Theatre 502, a small company that opened at the University of Iowa. After college, in 2011. Initially run by Amy Attaway and she completed an internship at the Actors Gil Reyes (co-artistic directors), along JANUARY 2020

“It’s been intense and amazing, nuts and awesome,” Grisanti says. “It was unexpected, but it felt like the right step for all of us.”

“It’s a strange little space that we’ve come to love,” says Grisanti, noting that 100 people can fit in the building though she prefers setting it up cabaret style with tables, which cuts seating in half. “Every show is sort of its own thing. You have to calibrate the space to the show,” says Grisanti, who is biased to the smaller theatres. “I like to feel connected to what’s there.”

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“I honestly don’t know how they had the time in their day to do all of these amazing things,” Grisanti says. Told through the perspective of two teenage black stepsisters who are seniors in high school, through magic they go back in time to learn about all of these black suffragists who were doing work in the 1800s and early 1900s. “Lawbreakers” is focused on women of color, specifically black women who were working against multiple injustices.

“We’ll do an invited reading and produce that play a year form this spring,” Grisanti says. “We have multiple irons in the fire.” When it comes to writing plays, Grisanti says that if she’s focused, she can complete a draft in two to three weeks. When her son, Victor, was born three years ago, it actually helped sharpen her concentration.

“It’s one of the trickiest plays I’ve ever written because so many young people are going to see it,” Grisanti adds. “At the end of the day, I want them to leave the theatre excited about voting.”

The topics of those plays vary, though there are themes that show up in a lot of her work. For instance, she’s intrigued by the notion of good intentions that don’t pan out. Plus, all of her work is feminist in nature.

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taking a moment to examine yourself and your own life. Theatre provides that opportunity,” Grisanti says.

She has taught every level, from PreK through college and adult. Currently, she’s teaching a playwriting class at the Commonwealth Theatre Center. She’s also teaching after-school drama programs at Looking for Lilith Theatre Company.

She notes that theatre is also communal.

“I’m constantly hustling on the teaching end because rarely can you make a living just writing plays. There are maybe five playwrights who do and the rest of us need a steady day job or a million side jobs to make ends meet.” Grisanti and her husband are passionate about theatre and the arts because it lets society take a pause from our real lives and consider what it means to be a person. “It makes us reflect on what our responsibility is to other people — just

“There’s something to be said for going into a room and everybody turning off their phones so that they may all participate in the same story. That so rarely happens,” Grisanti says. “With each play, you’re building a community in the rehearsal room and then you’re inviting more people into that community when you open the play.” And none of this even scratches the surface of all of the amazing life skills that theatre teaches — like how to work as a group and how to meet deadlines. “People in the business world are fools to not hire theatre people because we are really good at working under pressure,” Grisanti says.

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MENTAL C.O.R.E. STRENGTH FOUNDATIONS FOR A HIGH-PERFORMANCE MINDSET Writer / Dr. Dave Schroerlucke

Fitness gurus love talking about the importance of developing your core – the region between your chest and hips. It provides the foundation for optimal balance and explosive power.

The goal here is simply to better understand what each of these terms means within the context of sport and performance psychology and to begin to appreciate why they are so consistently touted by elite performers and their mental coaches as being essential to optimal performance.

However, there is another kind of core strength – mental core strength –and it’s C is for CONFIDENCE found in the region between your ears. Over the last several decades, researchers Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk with Olympic athletes and other world-class curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any performers have identified many of the experience that reveals the human spirit. mental qualities of high-achievers. ~E.E. Cummings~ We will focus on four such qualities: • Confidence • Optimism • Resilience • Equanimity

Put simply, confidence is the belief that you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to. In academic psychology, this belief has been operationalized under the term self-efficacy. Research has repeatedly shown that confidence (or self-efficacy) is one of the most reliable predictors of performance.

Confidence appears to exert its positive effects on performance primarily by changing the way we interpret the physiological arousal experienced in competitive or high-stake situations, with confident performers tending to interpret arousal as a good thing – a sign that they Confidence is the most frequently identified are alert and ready to face an exciting psychological attribute of elite athletes challenge rather than anxious about facing and performers. Not surprisingly then, a debilitating threat. enhancing self-confidence is universally viewed as one of the primary aims of O is for OPTIMISM coaches and sports psychologists.

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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ~Noam Chomsky~ Whereas confidence is a belief about the self, optimism is a belief about the future. Achieving anything extraordinary requires great discipline and sacrifice. Optimism boils down to a fundamental conviction that hard work pays off – that all the effort and sacrifice will be worth it in the end. Because optimism is the cornerstone of the positive psychology movement, ample research has been accumulated that attests to the positive impact of optimism on performance across a wide range of disciplines.

Resilience is an extension of the first two mental qualities. Being confident and optimistic is one thing. Being able to maintain that confidence and optimism in the face of obstacles, setbacks, and even failure is another thing altogether. Resilience is about being able to get back up when you get knocked down – not just once, but repeatedly.

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occur if we are not grasping at the pleasant or pushing away the unpleasant. Of all the qualities discussed here, When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self- equanimity is by far the least familiar and control, and do not remain out of tune longer most elusive. Equanimity is truly the holy grail of the mental training quest, as all than you can help. the other qualities are ultimately aimed at ~Marcus Aurelius~ moving the individual toward a capacity to Equanimity (pronounced ek-wah-ni-mi-tee) sustain continuous, undistracted focus and effort on the task at hand. refers to a state of mental and emotional stability that remains undisturbed by Equanimity provides a foundation for thoughts or experiences, whether good or persistent effort, regardless of the outcome, bad. Other common words and phrases to describe someone with this quality includes because you are connected to the integrity of the effort itself. “even-tempered,” “level-headed,” or “cool, calm, and collected.” SUMMARY In this article, I outlined four essential While the research base for equanimity is not as robust as the other qualities discussed components of a high-performance above, the performance-enhancing benefits mindset: of such emotional non-reactivity should CONFIDENCE: Belief that you can learn be obvious. Indeed, research on flow state and do difficult things suggests that we perform optimally when our attention is completely absorbed in OPTIMISM: Belief that good things will present moment action, which can only

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RESILIENCE: Ability to persist through difficulty and bounce back EQUANIMITY: Unshakeable mental and emotional stability This collection is not meant to be exhaustive or mutually exclusive. Indeed, these mental qualities share a great deal of conceptual interdependence with one another as well as with other popular concepts on offer in the mental performance marketplace, such as: GRIT: Angela Duckworth’s word for a combination of passion and perseverance, which are more important to success than natural talent or ability GROWTH MINDSET: Carol Dweck’s phrase for the belief that intelligence and ability can be improved through effort rather than being fixed or predetermined

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My intention is neither to diminish nor supersede the valuable contributions of these and other researchers. This is simply my attempt to organize and distill a wide range of overlapping psychological constructs into a format that makes sense and is easy to remember. That’s where the acronym C.O.R.E. comes in.

clicking on the links scattered throughout. There is no question that the path to excellence begins in the mind. Investing in the development of confidence, optimism, resilience, and equanimity will pay huge dividends in terms of your ability to reach your training goals and deliver your best when it matters most.

The analogy with physical core strength In mental training as in physical is apt. Just as the abdominals, obliques, training, don’t neglect your C.O.R.E.! and lower back muscles supporting the spine provides the foundation for physical stability, the four mental qualities described here provide the foundation for mental stability by supporting effective regulation of attention and emotions while also serving as a protective factor against fear, fatigue, frustration, self-doubt, and burnout. This article is also intended to serve as a jumping-off point for a more in-depth look at each of these concepts. The interested reader can explore some of my other articles on these topics by searching my blog or by

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TRINITY ROCKS COACH LOOKS BACK ON 2019 KHSAA BASKETBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Writer / Kelsey Schneider Photographer / Scott Scinta

Earlier this year, on Sunday, March 10th the Trinity High School Rocks and the Scott County Cardinals opposed one another on the Rupp Arena court, shooting on their defender’s hoop while obstructing the opposite from shooting in their hoop. During the entire season, Rock Nation supported and proudly cheered on the

Trinity Basketball Rocks’ solid team. Mostly Trinity students, 11,967 fans watched as their peers won the 2019 KHSAA Sweet 16 Boys Basketball State Championship. At Trinity High School, Head Coach Mike Szabo’s basketball team was on a path to greatness. Trinity’s athletics program provides challenges, confidence and strength for the

Basketball Rocks. The basketball program was established in 1954 and in 2004, the team won its first regional basketball title after beating Male. “The team was an absolute joy to play with and be around,” says Mike Szabo. “I had a lot of fun with them.” Versus traditionally strong programs, the Basketball Rocks faced a challenging

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schedule at the beginning of their season. Accompanied by three returning starters and players with lots of inexperience, the Rocks were scheduled to play against teams like Fern Creek, Scott County, Male, Lexington Catholic, Bullitt East and Henry Clay, to name a few. Trinity would once again be a participant in two of the finest holiday basketball tournaments in the nation, the King of the Bluegrass, a tournament held in Kentucky that the Rocks won twice before. Trinity won the King of the Bluegrass once in 2009 and again in 2016. The team finished as runner-ups last season. The Arby’s Classic, held in Bristol, Tennessee a top regional tournament won in 2016. The season’s goals were to compete for a Seventh Region Championship and get a trip to Rupp Arena for the KHSAA State Championship. Trinity lost 29-4 in the previous year and, according to their coach, the team was hungry to get back.

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The Trinity Basketball Rocks had an incredible season. Trinity played Scott County in the 2019 KHSAA Sweet 16 Boys Basketball State Championship and won with an ending score of 50-40. The Rocks finished the season as state champions with a record of 29-8. Coach Szabo says the team had a great start. Coach Szabo’s best player, David Johnson then hurt his knee against Collins in the semifinals of the King of the Bluegrass and wasn’t able to play in the second half of the game. Johnson was out during the toughest time of the season and missed five games. Johnson has signed to be one of the lead guards for the Louisville Cardinals this season. “David was an absolute joy to play with and be around,” Szabo says. “I had a lot of fun and really enjoy what I do. Every guy was a great guy with a great attitude, the parents as well. They were supportive of

me and the staff and were all about our team and basketball.” During the season, Waggener basketball beat Trinity for the 27th District Tournament title during their game at Atherton High School. The Waggener Wildcats had won eleven straight games in a row when they badly beat Trinity. Both teams were still able to advance to the Seventh Region tournament.

“The Regional Tournament was great,” Szabo says. “It was a great win at Male. We played the most talented teams in our Region.” Trinity advanced to the 7th Region semifinals with a 57-47 win over Male at Male. “We had a task in front of us to beat Scott County. Scott County’s coach is an incredible coach, one of Kentucky’s best ever,” Szabo says.

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David Johnson won MVP honors. “David was so coachable and always open to what was best for our team,” Szabo says. “He’s got the best career of anyone at Trinity I’ve coached. Tremendous talent, great person, great teammate. I think he’s going to do great things at the Uof L program and get them to National Championships.” Once a baseball pitcher, Coach Szabo started his teaching career at Washington College Academy in Limestone, Tennessee, a small private boarding school. At the school, he was the Director of Athletics, head coach for the baseball team and the basketball team. Szabo was studying basketball at the University of Tennessee under head coach Kevin O’Neill who’s currently the men’s basketball head coach at the University of Southern California. Szabo then went on to take the job as head basketball coach at the Fort Worth Country Day School. After 18 years at Trinity, coach Szabo has

completed his second state championship (the first in 2012). His trip to Rupp Arena marks his sixth time during his tenure that Trinity has captured the 7th Region crown and advanced to the KHSAA Sweet 16. Coach Szabo explains how he should’ve called a timeout during his state championship victory but seconded himself. He says other coaches in Kentucky are so competitive and that’s what made the season so fun.

“I don’t have to beat myself up for the next six months,” he says. “I was really proud, it was a gratifying feeling with no negative thoughts. The ending of the season was really bittersweet. Walking into the gym the following weekend I wished we were still practicing.” Trinity Basketball Rocks were not just lucky, but beyond blessed. Their coach says they became champions by being consistent, helping everyone on the team and being dedicated to being the very best.

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