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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
As for my daily walks, I've taken to listening to music on my iPod Nano. It's difficult to concentrate on books while keeping an eye on the kid, and he insists on coming along.
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Never say never again? Today I continued my reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
Tales of the Jazz Age by listening to "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" while walking with Norton. But he was well-behaved today; possibly because I threatened not to take him walking any more after his excursions into many neighbors' flower gardens and front porches earlier in the week. Anyway, "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" was an interesting story. My first impression was that it lacked any real drama, but I became increasingly impressed with it as I began to realize the wealth of commentary it makes in a few short sentences on age and the complex relationships between people of different ages. It had me going back to my own youth and thinking about the lack of respect young people receive at the hands of those who are older and more experienced and how they are rarely taken seriously. His increasing loss of interest in his wife as she aged while he grew younger was a sad reflection of the value we place on people according to their age.