blessing

“Even now when I remember him the grief is such that it’s only with God's blessing that I survive the torment,” he says.

And the scout team — there’s a blessing in disguise underneath all of this.

The new name for the streets, “Tebti,” is a word and blessing that translates to “the streams that flow together” — a reference to the Sacramento and American rivers, which join in West Sacramento.

The weight of that history — at a school known both for its wellspring of quarterbacks and lineage of Polynesian stars — hasn’t been lost on Maiava, who called it “a blessing and a privilege.”

“It was both a blessing and a curse, because I felt real pressure to get it right for everybody here,” they said.