I can't stand people who watch a movie without reading the book!!! I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. The local gas station/ grocery store is a place I frequent. My friend, Richard, works there. Every time I see him, he's staring down at something. Finally, I asked him, "WHAT are you DOING?"
He said, "What do you mean? I'm reading a book."
"Well, where are the pages? Where's the paper? How do you write notes in the margin?"
"It's on the computer. It's more compact and easier to carry around. I don't write notes in books. Flipping pages has always been a nuisance."
UGHHHHH.... what's this world coming to? I have a bad feeling libraries will eventually cease to exist. They'll go by the way of records, tapes, and soon to be CDs. They'll go by the way of cooking, turned into microwave cooking. They'll go by the way of personally harvested seeds to Monsanto seeds, by the way of small farms to huge industry farms. They'll vanish the same way the steel mills have. Books will disappear just as writing letters has disappeared. We now contact each other via email. Oh, so much is changing, and I don't like it.
Onto a different topic---- I've been getting popular mechanics for years. I love that magazine! I was over at mom and dad's one day while I was reading the magazine.
Dad said, "Whatcha got there?"
"Oh, it's this magazine I get, Popular Mechanics."
He said, "Are you kidding me?!!! I started reading that magazine when I was a little kid! YOU subscribe to that magazine? I didn't know it was still around."
"I didn't know Popular Mechanics has been around as long as you've been around!"
He said, "Oh, yeah.... that was the magazine that every boy wanted to have/ read."
So, that's my story about popular mechanics...... you know I have to have a story/ rambling about everything!
Back to the actual "subject" of this post, reading a book is difficult to get persons of any age to do. I'm not sure what's happened. I guess the computer and TV have taken over. I told T, "Don't you want to jump into a world that can be anything beyond your wildest dreams? Reading a book can take you all sorts of places."
It would be nice to give her a book to read due to her interests. The problem is, she doesn't have any interest in anything.... she's never had the chance to become interested in anything. So, as I've said before, I'm trying to get her interested in something. She'll come around, the idea of doing anything but watching TV is foreign to T. But, I have faith she'll realize that there is a world, a REAL WORLD, that exists beyond the scope of a TV.
Well, that's enough rambling for one post.
cheers, bird
