What Are We Doing With the Life We Still Have?

What Are We Doing With the Life We Still Have?Memorial Day, hockey, family, and the ordinary joy we almost missEpisode 51 of Still Here, Still Trying starts at the rink and moves into something much deeper.After a weekend playing in the Inland Northwest Girls Hockey Foundation tournament, Mike Baker reflects on hockey, Memorial Day, family, growing up, grief, gratitude, and the life we still get to live. He played on two teams, shared the ice with his son Jacob, watched girls he has known around the rink for years step into adulthood, and found himself thinking about how fast everybody grows up.The weekend was funny, sore, joyful, and full of life. Then Memorial Day brought the weight.Mike talks about missing his mom, thanking his dad for serving, remembering his grandpas who served in wars and came home, and honoring the families whose loved ones did not. This episode asks a question that cuts through the noise: if we are still here, what are we doing with the life still in our hands?This is a Memorial Day episode, but it is also a reminder to stop sleepwalking through the ordinary moments that matter most. The game. The laugh. The phone call. The drive home. The kids growing up. The parent you wish you could call. The people who served. The people who never came home. The joy we still get to carry.Mike closes the episode with a separate PS segment about his new song, “Don’t Lose Your Smile,” his first fully original song built from scratch. The song began downstairs at the Alaska terminal in the Boise airport while Mike was playing his little Martin travel guitar and talking with Jacob, who was traveling in Portugal. A simple line from that call became the heart of the song.Listen if you need a reminder to stay present, love your people out loud, and stop wasting the life you still get to live.Question for the comments: What ordinary moment are you trying not to rush past right now?