Neighborhood Basketball

Brett Shilton
4 min readOct 4, 2019

I spent some time recently watching my son shoot baskets with the girl across the street. That in itself seems simple enough. But as with most of life, there is so much more.

I could tell you about how our son is new to us. Not brand new. He’s 8, but he’s only been with us for 7 months. He’s only been home for 6 months. We adopted him from China this year. Just the fact that he’s here and has the opportunity to go across…

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Brett Shilton

Husband. Father. Leader. Connector. Learning to write, run, and enjoy sustainable rhythms. Writing about faith and what it looks like trying to live it out.