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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Silly Little Thing

I make the walk every Sunday morning. Out the door and down the walkway to the driveway where I find the Sunday morning paper, whereupon I reverse my course. Total time, maybe two minutes. It's my routine and I enjoy it. I dress for the walk, too. Usually I'm dressed in sweat pants and a t-shirt, class don't 'ya know.

If the morning is exceptional the time outdoors is delayed with deep breaths of clean air, a long look at the river as bird song and leaf color are cataloged.

Sunday is special, both the day and the almost extinct print edition of our nation's newspapers.

Here's the silly little thing about my Sunday mornings. After the two page comic section has been read I determine if it's worth saving for my Little Bit - today's copy made the grade. It's Super Bowl Sunday and Ground Hog Day. The section is folded, just so, and with ink I inscribe, to her, a note along the top of the page. I write; for Little Bit from Papa. I note the occasion why I've chosen this particular edition of the comics then end with, love.

There isn't a doubt in my mind newspapers, by the time she is an adult, will have long since taken the path of dinosaurs and ten cent loaves of bread. She turns nine this month. I want her to know and experience what she'll have missed. Like this:

I know, silly isn't it. Yet I feel it's the least I can do.

p.s., sorry it won't enlarge, deal with it.


Stephen
 


12 comments:

  1. Stephen, that is not the least bit silly. So many of the things, like newspapers, that we have known all of our lives will certainly be gone when our grandchildren are older. That is the reason I keep the stories my grandfather wrote and why I search for clues to my ancestry and why I enter everything I find in my genealogy program, with backup. When my grandchildren are old enough to ask the questions about where they came from, I want to have the answers. Good show.

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    1. Thank you, sweet lady...your comment mean much to me.

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  2. Stephen sometimes we think alike, scary?? I saved the newspaper from Nov. 25th 2013. The day my grandson was born. I had some others saved but the ended wet and had to be tossed. The ones I miss the most are of my kids birthdays in 1986, '89, '91, '94, '& 98.

    Enjoy the warmer weather. -11 this am for us.

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    1. Rob, I've saved only one newspaper in my life, other than these comics, and that was an edition of the Seattle Times. The front page gave the story of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Since I watched the eruption from my back yard I thought I'd keep a copy just for the fun of it. Thanks, my friend.

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  3. So good of you to make these keepsakes of your mindfulness of Little Bit.
    I imagine it will mean more than you may know. As for that stroll down the driveway. Hubby and I have an understanding. We go together to survey the morning. He's in real trouble if he heads out without me ;)

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    1. Thank you, pretty lady. You have a lucky husband.

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  4. She'll treasure it when that day comes, Stephen; you're not the least silly. And the comic enlarges just fine.

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    1. Thanks, my good friend. I tried and the comic enlarged just fine...the second time around.

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  5. Even though I don't visit here anymore, your mention of Lil' Bit was enough to make me leave a comment and hope for a future with both of you together.

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  6. That is a very thoughtful gesture. Those will be treasures some day.
    For those who think I am sneaking about, this is Practical Parsimony.

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    1. Thanks, Linda. If the price of my newspaper continues to rise in price these little tokens, treasures for her future will fade to shadows.

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