http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/ ...politics, pictures, pugs and all that jazz Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/comment-page-1/#comment-51638 George Frink Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:52:44 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/#comment-51638 Imagine 1961 if you can, and a crew-cut Southern farmer's son at dinner with parents and grandparents, facing down adult ridicule of his view that he would live in a world where computers would be as small as the vacuum-tube radio sitting on a nearby sideboard, and almost everyone would have his own. <br>To their credit, forty-two years later the living survivors of that conversation, though not provoked to do so, apologized. <br>Your daughter is fortunate to have a mother who dreams with her, rather than against her. Imagine 1961 if you can, and a crew-cut Southern farmer's son at dinner with parents and grandparents, facing down adult ridicule of his view that he would live in a world where computers would be as small as the vacuum-tube radio sitting on a nearby sideboard, and almost everyone would have his own.
To their credit, forty-two years later the living survivors of that conversation, though not provoked to do so, apologized.
Your daughter is fortunate to have a mother who dreams with her, rather than against her.

]]> http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/comment-page-1/#comment-41435 George Frink Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:52:44 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/#comment-41435 Imagine 1961 if you can, and a crew-cut Southern farmer's son at dinner with parents and grandparents, facing down adult ridicule of his view that he would live in a world where computers would be as small as the vacuum-tube radio sitting on a nearby sideboard, and almost everyone would have his own. <br>To their credit, forty-two years later the living survivors of that conversation, though not provoked to do so, apologized. <br>Your daughter is fortunate to have a mother who dreams with her, rather than against her. Imagine 1961 if you can, and a crew-cut Southern farmer's son at dinner with parents and grandparents, facing down adult ridicule of his view that he would live in a world where computers would be as small as the vacuum-tube radio sitting on a nearby sideboard, and almost everyone would have his own.
To their credit, forty-two years later the living survivors of that conversation, though not provoked to do so, apologized.
Your daughter is fortunate to have a mother who dreams with her, rather than against her.

]]> http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/comment-page-1/#comment-41434 Katharine Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:20:36 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/#comment-41434 Way to go, Mom! Way to go, Mom!

]]> http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/comment-page-1/#comment-51639 Katharine Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:20:36 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/03/11/forward-thinking-2/#comment-51639 Way to go, Mom! Way to go, Mom!

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