LJ Idol-Week 13

[lilyinchains]

Inside Baseball...

I hit my first baseball when I was five years old. I remember it was on a stick thingy and I was told to swing at it and I did. The ball flew and I ran around the bases for a homerun. I hit home run after home run when I played Tee-Ball. My Dad was so proud.

We moved. We always moved. Dad was in the

Comments

[basric]

A lovely shared memory and life lesson. Very well done.

[lilyinchains]

Thanks so much!! Yay, you likes it. :)

[similiesslip]

Very sweet and sad all tied together.

Do you regret not playing baseball longer?

I'm glad you put your energy into art and writing because you became a wonderful writer.

Life does circle. I see that more and more as I get older.

I really like your take on the topic.

[lilyinchains]

I sometimes wonder if I could have been the first girl in the major league or something like that. I was really good at a very young age. But I don't regret it so much as I regret not thinking I was a good writer until I was older. I wasted a lot of years thinking that the stuff I wrote meant nothing.

[i_17bingo]

“You really want to tell your CO that your 10 year old son picked on my 5 year old daughter and got his ass kicked?”

Funny, that's similar to what my wife used to say right before a bar-fight as her last warning to the dude she was about to throttle (i.e. "You want to tell your friends/the police that you were just beaten up by a girl?").

FYI, this piece got under my skin an a really good way. It reminded me that I couldn't even hit the tee-ball, and my father still made me join Little League.

[lilyinchains]

LOL, she must be a total bad ass.

[wyliekat]

That's a really nice memoir. It ties up a lot of emotions into a neat package, but it lets the reader infer a lot. Very well put together.

[lilyinchains]

Thank you.

[shadowwolf13]

Sweet and heart wreching all at the same time, well done.

[lilyinchains]

Thank you.