Friday, January 7, 2011

what happeded to daydreams

Shelly Harris • Thank you, dear, but it is up to you and your peers to save the newspaper industry. I am out of it all and writing fiction. and even tha's going to electronics too soon.

It all just goes too fast. How do the coming generations have time to think? I am horrified to see ads to teach babies to read. Dear God, how can parents do that? Babies need to learn their near world before they begin trying to imagine the outter reaches. They need to follow and ant to it's hill, rescue a baby bird, fall in the mud, imagine pigs in the clouds.

They may know how to read, but what will they have to write about? My grandchildren have either a joy stick, a keyboard or TV going at all times while their stunted imagination lays starving in a forgotten corner of their minds.

Time to get out my old copy of "the Brave New World" and refresh my memory.