It’s now nearly a week since we have gone through Irma and I welcome back all our readers. Not all of us in Florida have recovered power at this point and a number of our residents will not see a semblance of normality for quite a long time to come.  If you are Jake Luce and the Key West high school team or Coral Shores this is going to be a long way back.  Ransom Everglades sustained a lot of damage.  I’m sure that some of the West Coast schools also have a lot of cleanup and work to do. I texted back and forth with Immokalee HC Scott Rickard and most of his kids were in the high school shelter and that’s a community that we need to keep an eye on during the recovery given how much damage our state’s agricultural producers suffered. Given what this storm produced the loss of life seems muted thankfully.  We can always rebuild things, we can’t recover lives.  In the grand scheme of things those of us at FLN know we are not all that important in the lives of those who are on the road to recovery . . . let’s hope we can at least play a role in giving those who are going through a bit of a positive diversion. I encourage all our readers to send in any suggestions for how we can help in our community’s recovery. If it’s fundraising or anything else, just let us know. Irma is now part of our state’s memory and will be this generation’s Andrew, the one we tell our grandkids about for many of us.  Let’s hope it’s the only one our generation needs to tell stories about. The lacrosse community has always been a relatively small but tight community.  Let’s prove that in the days and weeks ahead.