Reflections from the back nine
Just some thoughts:
Recently while in Florida I stood in line behind a lady at a convenience /gas station type store.
When she got to the cashier she bought one hundred dollars worth of lotto tickets and ten dollars in gas. Turning to the person with her she said, “that’s all the gas I can afford to buy today.”
Was something amiss here?
February 18, 2018
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
Just some thoughts:
First thing one morning I walked into a Goodwill store in Florida.
As my kids used to call it “elevator” music the song that came on was Chuck Wills doing “C.C.Rider.”
Or how about “What am I living for?”
I knew it had to be a good day.
March 5, 2018
Keep on,
Larry Adam
Just some thoughts:
“A boy’s will is the wind’s will, and thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
I think what he is saying…for a boy…there are thoughts from his youth that always remain.
A fella I often drink coffee with said to me the other day: “Larry, I’m two years shy of eighty and seems I think about and like most of the same things I did when I was eighteen.” With that he smiled and asked “Do you understand that?”
I also smiled and replied…”absolutely…”oh yeah….I do..yes I do.”
February 5, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
Just some thoughts:
Maybe it is just me aging, but it seems to me far too often in our society we have and are equating ceremony with substances.
August 1, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
Just some thoughts:
Some years back I was at this game.
It was half-time at a small college women’s basketball game. Division two and probably not more than five or six hundred in attendance. It was one of the five or six games I’d attended that week. I’d walked out in the hallway of the gym to get another bag of popcorn. ( I rate the popcorn at all the games I attend–this place has the best corn-they give you a full big bag for a buck–highway robbery at all those others. They give you a small box and charge three dollars. Also you can get Diet Dr.Pepper there.)
That’s when I saw her. “No” can’t be her, what would she be doin’ at a game like this?” Striking figure she was. Tall, arms folded and leaning against the wall. She looked like what I had seen in sports pictures. “No, no can’t be.” With that I walked over to her, “Excuse me Ma you don’t know me from a load of coal, but aren’t you Coach Summitt?” “Why, yes I am.” I stuck out my hand, introduced myself to her, apologized for bothering her but told her “I had to come over here, I am a basketball fan and have such respect for you.” She could not have been nicer to me. “I won’t bother you any longer but I just had to know and say hello.” “Oh hey no bother, nice to meet you.” For me that was a treat. It certainly added to the evening, made my week. I am so glad I did that.
“We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities, because they fear failure. They don’t understand commitment. When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can’t acquire it if you’re afraid of keeping score.”
Sum It Up—Pat Summitt
Oh my what the fear of failure does to all of us. Vision…you can’t get it if you are afraid of what might happen…what the score might be.
January 6, 2016
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
Just some thoughts:
It was ten cent day.
I often go to this one swap shop or whatever you call it. Junk is what some people would call it. Every so often they have what they call ten cent day. That is where they have a small red sticker on items and the cost of that item is ten cents.
Well today I saw this book by George Will, Men at Work. It had a red sticker and I think “Yea this is worth ten cents.” Will is a political writer/television person etc. You see him often on political talk shows. But he also is a devoted baseball fan and sometime back wrote this very good book on baseball, Men at Work.
In the book he tells this story of Babe Ruth. Ruth goes to the plate and is called out on strikes by umpire Babe Pinelli. Ruth is mad. He argues the call and then appeals to the crowd, gesturing, kicking dirt, trying to get the sympathy of the crowd and for them to become hostile to Pinelli.
Ruth says to Pinelli, “There’s 40,000 people here who know that last call you made was a ball no way it was a strike, tomato head.” You gotta love this umpire. He replied, “Maybe so, but mine is the only opinion that counts.”
You know we all would do well in many life situations to learn what is really important, what really matters and whose opinions are important. .
September 15, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
I am not a big fan of 24 hour news and the various news channels we have today.
I remember in the early days of television that you had the news in the early morning, at noon and six that evening. At first it generally was a 15 minute newscast, later it went to 30 minutes.
I kinda apply the great philosopher Winnie the Pooh’s take to watching all the news today. Today I think far too many people get completely bent out of shape by news watching and believing everything they hear and see.
“Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing–
of just going along and not listening to all the things you could hear.”
Winnie Pooh
In some cases I think we all would be better off in doing nothing in comparison to watching too much news and certainly we all would be better off if there were some things we did not hear. Again I said too much news, I did not say any. But in my opinion today we have more than often is needed.
September 1, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamso
Just some thoughts:
Legendary country singer, composer Hank Williams famous song “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
has been played millions of times on the air waves. It has been played so many times that if it was played continuously on a radio station it could play for 17.1 years.
That’s a lot of cheatin’ heart….
January 17, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
Just some thoughts:
“Our inability had a lot more to do with our success than our ability.”
“If we had done what we wanted to do in those days–which was play like all those great musicians in Nashville–we would have sounded like everyone else, and that would have taken away from the character in John’s voice.”
Said by Marshall Grant–member of John Cash”s early band–The Tennessee Two
Sometimes one can try to attain “perfection”………. to their determinate.
April 14, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
Just some thoughts:
Chances are if one lives long enough they will find themselves saying something like this:
“I’d pay good money to see.”
Well, there are a lot of things I would pay good money to see again and even more money to experience again.
One thing I would pay good money to again see, and I was not even a Chicago Cub fan, I would pay money to see Ron Santo jump up and click his heels again. In 1969 one of the better years for the Cubs Santo would often run out on the field at the end of a Cub win and do just that. Chicago fans loved it.
If you were a baseball fan one had to like Santo.
By the way…there are a number of things from my life that I would pay good money to see, do or live over.
You?
August 15, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
