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Friday, November 27, 2020 – TaleWriter
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Comment:
Birth Name Thomas Robert Laughlin
Date of Birth 10 August 1931, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Date of Death 12 December 2013, Thousand Oaks, California
A name from the past for those of you who know who he is. I knew him as Billy Jack, from the movies: In 1967 – “The Born Losers”, in 1971 – “Billy Jack”, and in 1974 – “The Trial of Billy Jack”.
I didn’t know he was dead—has been for going on seven years now. He was 82. He was probably in his early forties when I first saw one of his movies. I thought he was younger.
I’m sure Tom Laughlin has popped into my head at some time or other since I last saw one of his movies (mid 70’s), but I’ve never had the inclination to look him up on the net—until this week, and I find out he’s dead.
No matter your age, there are a lot of folk we grew up listening to, reading, watching, and we’ve lost many of them—lose more of them every year. Yesterday I watched a movie, “Last Train from Gun Hill”, staring Kirk Douglas (Born: December 9, 1916, Amsterdam, N. Y.—Died: February 5, 2020, Beverly Hill, CA) and Anthony Quinn (Born: April 21. 1915, Chihuahua, Mexico—Died: June 3, 2001, Boston, MA).
Equally, no matter the age of the ones we’ve lost, it feels as if we didn’t have them around nowhere near long enough.
The bottom line to this piece is this: It doesn’t matter how many years we are allowed on this earth, they fly by, especially when viewed in retrospect. Don’t waste it. We all have so very little of it left.
. . . And so, I leave you with this . . .
Quote:
“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
— Mo Yan, February 17, 1955 —
Note: This post is from a piece I wrote at an earlier time. I just updated it a bit.
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