ever since my daughter joined KG, i have been frequenting the local lending library more often than i used to hang out there.. and i cant resist the company of my two little ones either.. every sunday, soon after lunch and a nap, three of us head to eloor lending library, hardly a km away from where we stay.. it would be post-lunch time there, employees amuse themselves savoring trivia at home and at the work place.. most of the shelves would sport a deserted look.. bibiliophiles usually visit the place after six or seven in the evening i guess...
well, we head straight to the kids' section.. of late, my daughter's favorite is enid blyton.. and papa himself has fallen in love with all the characters in the toy town of toy land.. Noddy, Big Ears, Tessy Bear, the mischevous Goblins, Dinah Doll, Martha Monkey etc...it is fun and suddenly i see that i re-live my childhood once again...true, a weirdly vicarious feeling..
post dinner time.. the kids take ther respective positions beside papa.. the elder one to the right and the litttle one to the left.. papa takes over to read stories from toy land.. the elder one listens with utmost curiosity that all i can hear would be her slow breaths.. the younger one would ask occassional trivia but would go back to the storyline after prompt answers from papa..noddy drives dinah doll to the market for shopping... and on the way, the goblins cast a spell on them... and soon noddy's car is down with a flat tyre.. and big ears comes, from no-where, for resue.. i enjoy each and every moment of reading stories to my kids.. it is fun and immensely rewarding, if you notice their beaming faces post story time.. and this occasion would, in all probability, be rare.. since they doze off in between, almost always!!!
if a day passes without a bed-time story, i terribly miss something.. needless to ask their opinion on this.. and soon, a time will come, when they pick and read books on their own... would i continue to read stories from enid blyton and disney land then..? you bet:-)
PS: papa keeps his habiit of reading serious fiction, as always.. currently reading Chick Soup for The Bride's Soul..
so long
roy
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My friend and I were recently discussing about how we as a society are so hooked onto electronics. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as technology further develops, the possibility of copying our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I daydream about all the time.
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