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| PUBLISHER’S MESSAGE A few months back, my grandmother, Marian Pratt, passed away. She was ninety-nine and ready to go on to the next thing. My cousins and I called her Ammu. And we learned so much from her, including when to not help ourselves to seconds. Born atop an especially dusty section of the San Joaquin Valley hardpan in 1922, Ammu grew up on a tiny farm during the Great Depression. Those were lean times. But visitors to the ranch house, which was faintly visible from tractors lumbering down the Old Dinuba Highway, would have never known it because everything was kept under wraps, concealed by a secret code: FHB. Recently, some friends stopped by our house late one afternoon. We did not expect them but welcomed the surprise. My wife had a pot simmering on the stove, and insisted they stay for dinner. As we sat down together at the table, I turned to our boys and whispered, “FHB.” Family Hold Back. They both nodded without protest, and I felt Ammu there, as I looked for her hands on my shoulders through fast-welling eyes. Although our sons are twelve and sixteen—they order a grand total of ten hamburger patties at In-N-Out between them—they declined a second helping of their favorite home-cooked meal. While she is no longer around to serve as our family matriarch, eulogized for her unique combination of “glamour and grit,” we continue to learn her lessons—lessons that can only be taught by someone who lived through the hard times. And found good in them. The longer I live, the more I see FHB as a concept that applies to so many other areas of life, far beyond the dining room. One of my passions is football. My playing days are long gone, but I now find more joy in coaching my son and his teammates than I ever experienced on the field myself. And, when I’m working with the boys, I can hear Ammu’s voice playing over and over like one of her Big Band records spinning at the old ranch house: “FHB.” Coaches love to talk about teamwork, and rightly so. “There’s no ‘I’ in team,” they say, along with a million other platitudes we’ve all seen on those tear-off desk calendars. Teamwork makes the dream work. FHB is not something you say—it’s something you do. It’s the act of sacrificing self in service of others. “Family Hold Back” are words that have surely never been uttered in the locker room during an impassioned halftime speech. But they should, because that’s what it’s all about. Everything. When I watch a well-oiled offense marching down the field, firing on all cylinders, I can feel the vibrations of a Big Band harmony, as a group of individuals meld into one. By putting the guy next to them above themselves—FHB—together, they transcend. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, warping time and space, willing one plus one to equal three. Ammu should have coached football—or run for president. Thank you to everyone who has had a hand in producing this issue of SLO LIFE Magazine and, most of all, to our advertisers and subscribers—we couldn’t do it without you. Live the SLO Life! FHB Tom Franciskovich tom@slolifemagazine.com p.s. If you’d like to read more visit me at tomfranciskovich.com 12 | SLO LIFE MAGAZINE | AUG/SEP 2021
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