I spend way too much time in front of the computer, but one of my favorite quotes is: "Time one enjoys wasting is not wasted time."
When I start a session, I loop through a saved set of sites to catch up on the news and 'news.' My sites cover the gamut of MSNBC to FOX NEWS with many in-between points of view along the way. However, as Frost wrote in "The Road Not Taken," the statement "knowing how way leads on to way" dictates what happens next. Something will catch my mind, and I start off on a search to find out more.
I am not quite sure how it happened, but something triggered my mind this morning, and I ended up looking back over Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, a book I loved to teach (read and discuss [there is such a wealth of topics and ideas to pursue])! While the book of stand-alone short stories was published some 71 years ago, many of the stories are as relevant today as they were when published.
Of the eighteen stories (held together by the frame of living tattoos on The Illustrated Man), I usually taught about half of them. Among my very favorites were 'The Veldt,' 'Kaleidoscope,' 'The Other Foot,' 'The Last Night of the World,' 'The Rocket Man,' and 'The Rocket.' The stories were predictive and all deal with today's issues.
The book can be found at https://csuclc.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/illustrated-man-by-ray-bradbury.pdf
Read The Prologue, and then pick the stories you want to read. Let me know what you think.
