The Tao of Catch:
Quantification de zen
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Jim Cervantes |
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No dodgeball. No futball. No baseball, basketball, or volleyball. I was a
clumsy child and the eldest child, with no one to throw to for a long time.
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Then, my first grade teacher put me off the ball thing even more. She had this
crazy notion that in order to learn to count, one had to bounce a ball for each
count. Well, I COULD count but couldn't bounce the ball - or at least not
successfully more than a few times in a row. The old fool would report that I
wasn't doing well with my counting!
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Thus a ball, a symbol of physical prowess,
came between me and acknowledgement of my intellectual prowess.
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