Posted on 07/06/2015 1:52:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky.
Among the things I did not know at the time was that I was adopted as an infant into a family with four adults, in which I was the only child.
All sorts of research since then has shown how the amount of attention and interactions with adults a child gets has a lot to do with the way the child develops. But of course I knew nothing about such things back then.
It was decades later, when I now had a son of my own that I asked one of the surviving members of the family how old I was when I first started to walk. She said, "Oh, Tommy, nobody knows when you could walk. Somebody was always carrying you."
Many times over the years, she liked to recall an incident when I was maybe three or four years old. She had taken me somewhere out of the neighborhood, maybe to a movie, and all was fine until we got back in sight of our home. That was when I picked up some rocks and started throwing them at her.
She laughed then, and many times in later years when she told that story to others. She thought it was so cute that I was well-behaved while I didn't know how to get back home without her, but then got mischievous when I saw our house.
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Nah, he was just born too soon! LOL!
Yes, I’m sure he thinks of me often...with regret! *SMIRK*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv1nTsxNWJ4
Kathy Mattea - Where have you been - w/Lyrics
Back to the subject of this Post!
Thomas Sowell - what an intellect!
What humility!
What conviction in his beliefs, in his knowledge of truth!
We have “The Thomas Sowell Reader” in audio book and listen to it repeatedly while on long drives to see the kids and grandkids.
Did you know he was once a pistol marksmanship instructor while he was in the Marine Corps? (”The Thomas Sowell Reader”)
I believe he now lives near Gastonia, NC. If so, I’m trying to decide if it would be too intrusive to try to stop by and thank him in person for his writings.
He has resided in the Stanford/Palo Alto region of the SF Bay area, he may have recently moved to NC but I’m not aware of it.
He has written some on the high cost of living and housing in the Bay area and has also mentioned his time in the Marine Corps in some of his columns
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