Re-reading yesterday’s post in the cold clear light of day, I may have made it sound like I don’t like Sesame Street. That’s not exactly true. While I have never really cared to watch it, that’s because I encountered it as an *adult*. Its target audience is not (necessarily) adults. Its target audience is mainly young children.

I think Sesame Street’s main audience is young children but also the sometimes under-prepared parents who are struggling to raise them. I think one of the show’s missions is to help with early childhood education for children who live in places that don’t have Reading Chairs (or even toilets) and/or parents who have the time and patience to sit in a Reading Chair with their babies and read book after book after book to them. And maybe those parents also cannot read.

Although the GG certainly can and did read to our babies, I was the main reader. I read to my kids until they were well past being independent readers. For a summer or so, I read chapters of “Indian in the Cupboard” aloud on the moominbeach to several generations of relatives. I miss those days but they are “moiles” away.

I enjoy reading aloud. I like to put at least a little “feeling” into the words. I will act out the voices of some of the characters if there is dialogue. I even do that kind of thing when I am presenting functional specifications at work😵‍💫. Maybe there is an actor buried inside me somewhere? I do get tired when I read books where a FROG is the main character because then I have to use a raspy voice and I get pretty hoarse.

So I get what Sesame Street is trying to do and I support it. Also Mr. Rogers, RIP. An early savior of public broadcasting. It’s long but it’s good and f*ck Trump, whose children have had all the advantages money can buy but still seem to be idiots.

Alas. At our daily stand-up meeting this morning one of our Indian colleagues reported that another Indian colleague could not attend because his area was under a blackout. I think everyone is okay and it sounded like this was maybe a drill of some sort but war is hell and I wish we could just not do it.

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