Medals

I've heard of swimmers constructing end tables or coffee tables and sealing their medals on the table surface under a coat of clear acrylic plastic. One of my projects will be to take some of mine and create a mobile with them, using driftwood sticks and sea shells as the cross sticks for suspending the individual medals. I've also thought about creating other mobiles that resemble various constellations, with the medals positioned like the stars, and thin metal rods linking the "stars" together in a way that suggests the constellation. I admire and respect those who give their medals away to children or things like Special Olympics. I still have a bit too much "medal envy" to want to do that myself. (As one of my college teammates perceptively pointed out, "mediocre" swimmers seem to be the ones who don't grow up, and keep pursuing that which they could not win as an age group or college swimmer. He really "bingoed" me with that one.) One of my regrets is that when I gave away a box of books to a local library, I did not check what else was in the box and unintentionally gave away my age group, HS, and college medals. Fortunately, I still have team photos.

I've heard of swimmers constructing end tables or coffee tables and sealing their medals on the table surface under a coat of clear acrylic plastic. One of my projects will be to take some of mine and create a mobile with them, using driftwood sticks and sea shells as the cross sticks for suspending the individual medals. I've also thought about creating other mobiles that resemble various constellations, with the medals positioned like the stars, and thin metal rods linking the "stars" together in a way that suggests the constellation. I admire and respect those who give their medals away to children or things like Special Olympics. I still have a bit too much "medal envy" to want to do that myself. (As one of my college teammates perceptively pointed out, "mediocre" swimmers seem to be the ones who don't grow up, and keep pursuing that which they could not win as an age group or college swimmer. He really "bingoed" me with that one.) One of my regrets is that when I gave away a box of books to a local library, I did not check what else was in the box and unintentionally gave away my age group, HS, and college medals. Fortunately, I still have team photos.