Just some thoughts: If you walk like a duck, you quack like a duck you go down to the swimming hole with the ducks, you jump in the water with the ducks, don't be surprised if they call you a duck Grandma McCammon George Washington is credited with saying:
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." In other words be careful what duck or ducks you hang out with... ================================================================================================ August 20, 2011 Keep on, Larry Adams Just some thoughts:
There a period time in one's life when they will do just about anything to appear older. There also comes a period of time in that same person's life when they will do just about anything to appear younger. After thought: Often in life, "things" loom larger in memory than they were in fact. That can especially happen as one ages. ================================================================================================ March 5, 2009 Keep on, Larry Adamson Just some thoughts: So often in conversations we hear the expression "Hey how about the little brother." Well how about in this case, the bigger brother. His little brothers' name is immediately recognized in most circles from athletics to politics. Martin Luther King, once when praise was given to him about being the forerunner, leader of the early Civil Rights movement, King immediately sited this man, Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was the first black American to play in the major leagues breaking into the league with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946. But I bet here is a little know fact about the Robinson family. Jackie's older/ big brother Matthew, Mack, won a medal, silver medal in the 1936 Olympics held in Germany, the one that made Jesse Owens famous. Mack was born in Georgia in 1914. He and his siblings were left fatherless at an early age, leaving their mother, Mallie Robinson as the sole support of the family. She must have been quite a lady. Mack placed second in the 200 meters at the United States Olympic Trials in 1936 earning him a place on the Olympic team. He went on to win the silver medal, second place medal, at the Summer Olympics in Berlin finishing 0.4 seconds behind Jesse Owens. This is the famous Olympics that Hitler tried to dominate from a political standpoint and give credence to what he called the superior race. Not so. Both Jessie Owens and big brother to Jackie Robinson, Mack proved otherwise. ================================================================================================ November 21, 2017 Keep on, Larry Adamson Just some thoughts: In Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises, two of the main characters, Jake Barnes and Lady Brett are riding in a taxi in Madrid, Spain. They were talking of past times, about things that might have been and accepting things, unfulfilled yearnings as sometimes that is just how life happens. Sometimes that is just the condition of life. Brett says to Jake: "We could have had such a good times together." Brett replies, "Yes. "Isn't it pretty to think so?" You ever had things....that at least it was "pretty to think so?" You are pretty unusual if not. ================================================================================================ November 21, 2017 Keep on, Larry Adamson Just some thoughts: You know sooner or later: "Your name is gonna appear in the obituaries." Larry Adamson That's the thought I had around 6 A.M. this morning as I opened the Nashville Tennessean and laid it out on my table at my coffee place and took my first sip of coffee. ================================================================================================ November 11, 2017 Keep on, Larry Adamson |
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Larry Adamson was raised in Indiana. After teaching and coaching for several years he worked as Director of Championships at the United States Golf Association in NJ. He's retired, living just outside Nashville,TN. He blogs about his favorite things: sports, music, old cars, and the good ole days. Click on the about page for more information. Archives
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