What Kobe Bryant taught me about grace and joy

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed away, throngs of Americans publicly mourned the death of the president. Thousands came out to grieve the 32nd Commander in Chief as his body was transported from Georgia to the nation’s capital. One journalist asked a mourner if he ever knew or met FDR. “ I didn’t know him, but he knew me,” the man replied. “He knew where I was from, what I stood for, and my dreams. He…