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"We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars". (Oscar Wilde)
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It suggests to me that all human kind has the ability to dream and imagine, given the chance. One of my pet hobbyhorses is that the children today are not being allowed to develop their own imaginations. They watch tv, and re-enact scenes from soap operas in their play. They play video games, usualy on their own against that collection of metal, plastic and electrical wiring called a computer. They watch movies and play out the scenes for days afterwards. What they do not do is learn the skills to foster their own version of the world. The one that lives in their own imaginations. What of years to come I wonder, when these children have grown up. Since many are not in the habit of reading for pleasure, how many new works of fiction will there be? May it not be left to the formulised computer programme to churn out works of fiction based on the plots of the books from years before when people still knew how to imagine? It is sad to think how much many are going to miss out on by being denied the right to dream.
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How about some more jokes? Go on you know you want to read more!
- What is the difference between ingnorance and apathy? I don't know, and I don't care!
- Knock! Knock! Who's there? I dunnop! I dunnop who........?
- Did you hear about the man eating in an open air resturante when it began to rain. It took him a hour and a half to finish his soup.
- I've never donated an organ, but I did once give a piano to the charity shop.
- How can you tell when you have run out of invisable ink? The printer stops!
That's it for the jokes, for the time being. Who knows when another batch may surface.
The big news of today for me is that I have opened up a website. Opened up is about as far as I have got! It all looks a lot more daunting that this blog ever did.
My website is already linked to this blog (I got that right!). But try as I might I cannot link from this blog to my website.It is call Jackie's Place, but the way, as sort of somewhat weak play on words. It is on spanglefish.com, so maybe you can find it without a link.I looked at the satelite map of the UK and I could see right into my back garden. There was the big tree that I lost to the winter storms in 2006. When I work out how I will post that picture on my website. What a shame the photo was not taken when I was out in the garden waving at the sky. (Not that I make a habit of waving at the sky).
