Archives for May 2018

Just some thoughts:

Have you ever walked into a room, a meeting,  faced someone or someone’s, they saying nothing and you likewise saying nothing.

But you realized something strange was happening here cause nobody was saying nothing, but you realized a “conversation” was still managing to take place?

I have.

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May 8, 2018
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Larry Adamson

Posted 5-30-2018

Just some thoughts:

On a recent Saturday afternoon my wife and I attended a drum concert. Yes, a drum concert, don’t think I had ever attended one of them.

Our eleven year old granddaughter, Delaney is taking lessons and now playing the drums. Hey, remember Karen Carpenter?

Her music teacher introduced her and said she would be doing a number from the  very popular Broadway play, Hamilton. With the mention of the name Hamilton I thought of something he once was credited with saying.

“A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician.”
Alexander Hamilton

Personally, and I think a few other folks would be in favor of disappointing many of them by bringing about term limits and thus allowing them more time to be in their gardens.

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May 5, 2018
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Larry Adamson

Posted 5-29-2018

Just some thoughts:

He was on a date in Greenville, Texas on Sunday December 7th, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Shortly thereafter he tired to enlist in the Marines.     He was turned down and told:

“Young man you are too short, you are too underweight and you are too young.”

Some years back I visited his final resting place.

“His grave is marked by a standard Arlington Cemetery tombstone of white marble, just like the hundred of thousands of others. It stands at the end of a row, shaded by the branches of a massive Willow Oak Tree, beside the road that passes north of the amphitheater near the Tomb of the Unknowns. Each day, small groups of people drift over, some of the clutching a map from the visitors center, searching for his grave. They pause and a few take off their hats. They speak to each other in hushed tone. Some obviously know more about the records of achievements that is abbreviated on the front of the stone that do others.”

The Price of Valor–David A. Smith

The one entombed  there is a Medal of Honor solider. In fact it is said that he was the most decorated soldier of WW II.  It is the grave of Audie Murphy, later of Hollywood fame.

A few weeks later in 1942 after his first effort to join the service he enlisted in the Army. At that time he stood 5 feet 5 inches in height, weighed 112 pounds and was 17 years old. His drill Sergeant gave him the nickname of “Baby” because of his youthful looks.He would go on to be the most decorated soldier of WW II.

Possibly one should never be judged by their height, weight or age. The heart may be covered with a thin veil that very few can see or know.

On this Memorial Day week-end I think of so many who gave up so much for many others.

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January 28, 2018
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Larry Adamson

Posted 5-27-2018

Just some thoughts:

Harvey Penick the legendary Texas golf professional, instructor, it was once said of him:

“Harvey is so careful in choosing what he says that I have often seen him fail to respond to a question until the next day for fear that his answer  would be misconstrued.”

Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake– Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book

How many of us would be or had been better off had we had such wisdom when something was said or asked of us?

I know one.

You?

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March 18, 2018
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Larry Adamson

Posted 5-26-2018

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.”

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February 5, 2017
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Larry Adamson

Just some thoughts:

“There is a time in most lives approaching middle age when the scorecard starts to fill up, when the eyes notice a list of departed figures from a circle that had seemed immune, bulletproof against normal attrition. One person dies, and maybe there is an explanation; two, an accident; three, a strange disease. But when four or five die, the eyes notice and the brain starts to considering the limitations of mortality.”
The Big Bam–Leigh Montville

Too true.

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April 25, 2018
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Larry Adamson

Just some thoughts:

When I was in high school in the late 1950s’ a song that was popular  by an artist named Gene Chandler was ,” The Duke of Earl.”

A title is something that describes someone’s position, a group of words attached to a person name.  It could even be self given. On the other hand the word testimony is said to be public’s recounting, not self-given but by others about or on behalf of another.

I think sometimes today far too often we see people who want titles when maybe they have not gained or been worth of a testimony.

My wife remembers when she was  in high school that song “The Duke of Earl” was popular. Often there was this kid he would parade the halls or at lunch announcing himself as “The Duke of Earl.”  A self proclaimed title.

Any one can call themselves “The Duke of Earl.” But only others can know and give respect to “The Duke.” I think one should always hope that they would be more worthy of a testimony (positive) rather than a title. Anyone can give themselves a title, only others can speak well to another’s character.

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December 30, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson