A Modicum of Quick - Pearson, Bill

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Résumé :
Basketball is a very simple game. There is a long hard surface called a court (84 feet long by 50 feet wide) and at each end there is a basket - 10 feet off the ground. Teams of 5 players compete with one another to see who will get the ball through the hoop more times before time runs out. This is a simple story of basketball and so much more. How much can one young man impact the lives of others while beating a ball against the pavement of the neighborhood court? Arvie, now in his 80s, recounts memories from childhood and is haunted by the impact of just such a young man from his youth. While certain that God performs miracles all around us, he struggles with understanding why our great God would use this simple crew of scrawny, lightweight misfits to reveil His power and grace. Sit back, enjoy the season and decide for yourself if God has a soft spot for basketball or just these small town kids who love it so much....

Biographie:
You couldn't get a weirder mix of a bloke than Bill Pearson. Raised at Homebush in what at that time, in the 1960s, was considered the extremities of the Western Suburbs of Sydney, it took only one attendance at a race meeting to set him on the path of lifelong race car follower, participant and motor racing photographer. His jobs included copy boy, newsreel film editor and cameraman, videotape editor and TV workshop manager, ordained Baptist minister serving 14 years in two states (Rev Head), then a full-time professional award-winning taxidermist. (The connection between the last two occupations is life after death!) Next came drug and alcohol counsellor, family community services manager, ending with services manager with a large fiberglass supplies manufacturer. He taught himself how to do things by himself, sculpt and make his own fiberglass race car parts, all the automotive mechanics those projects involve, and was a skilled photographer with work published on the covers of Auto Sportsman and most other Australian car magazines. He was also a hunter/journalist, becoming a well-known and regular contributing journalist to Australian Sporting Shooter with regular articles and colour covers yet again. Supposedly retired, he's just finished building his own two-storey house in the mountains, virtually single-handedly over four years, which has formed just 58 of the over 250 videos uploaded to his WJP004 YouTube channel that is literally watched around the world. Having recently switched from dirt to only tar, his current racing goal is to keep on winning state championships alongside his even more successful son.

Sommaire:
You couldn't get a weirder mix of a bloke than Bill Pearson. It took only one attendance at a race meeting to set him on the path of lifelong race car follower, participant and motor racing photographer. His jobs included copy boy, newsreel film editor and cameraman, videotape editor and TV workshop manager, ordained Baptist Minister serving 14 years in two states (Rev. Head), then a full-time professional award-winning taxidermist. Next came drug and alcohol counsellor, family community services manager, ending with services manager with a large fibreglass supplies manufacturer. He taught himself how to do things by himself, sculpt and make his own fibreglass race car parts, all the automotive mechanics those projects involve, and was a skilled photographer with work published on the covers of Autosportsman and most other Australian car magazines. He was also a hunter/journalist, becoming a well-known and regular contributing journalist to Australian Sporting Shooter with regular articles and colour covers yet again. Supposedly retired, he's just finished building his own two-storey house in the mountains virtually single-handedly over four years, which has formed just 58 of the over 250 videos uploaded to his WJP004 YouTube channel. Having recently switched from dirt to only tar, his current racing goal is to keep on winning state championships alongside his even more successful son....