Posted By:
barry arnoldOne of my students asked me recently what it's like to be elderly.
I was hoping it was a rhetorical question but given TREX TED's
post, I'm probably fooling myself.
I'd rather be a dinosaur than elderly any day----even an herbivore.
I started collecting cards in the sixties as a little leaguer, pony
leaguer, and 'also ran.'
I had enough 'sense' to put the Mantle's, Berra's, Mays', Aaron's,
Musial's, Clemente's in the front part of my baseball cap to keep it
standing up straight. The Dalrymple's,Groat's,Stuart's,Hunt's,etc.
went in bicycle spokes to make that wonderful noise that brings 'flashbacks' that TREX TED refers to.
In the 70's I studied. And grew hair.
In 1980 i reached some measure of enlightenment and began collecting
t210's,205's,206's due to an inheritance. I married soon after and sold
most of my shinies in a mall so we could buy furniture.
I became an academic and thought that something was more interesting
than the T cards.
Then i became a dinosaur or elderly and realized T 206 was synonymous
with nirvana or nirvikalpa samadhi or just plain fun.
tbarry