Tag: Gatlin Brothers

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice Soccer wasn't really happening for Royal Gatlin. The three-year-old was on the field as a player, technically. But he was picking little purple clovers for his mother and bringing them to her. When the game break came, Royal found a package of Goldfish crackers in his baby brother Walker’s stroller and grabbed it. "Papa, I can't open it." Larry Gatlin did. After eating a few, Royal got a question from his grandfather. Could Papa have one? "No." What followed wasn't a lecture. It was a lesson. "What would the world look like if everybody acted and thought like you did? What if nobody would share stuff?" Gatlin recalled asking. "It's called the categorical imperative." Papa was teaching German philosophy written in 1785...