Another wonderful essay (don’t tell Michael but your writing resonates with me more than his does, haha). The football theme is another variation on “One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” idea. . . Like Rocky and Bullwinkle, Charlie Brown was always written by an adult for adults. One can only hope that the messages settled into the hearts and souls of children as well. Lovely piece of writing. . .
I know this is is off track for this story (which is great!) but my heart was in my mouth for a second when the email preview came through and all I saw was "should Charlie Brown have been allowed to" and I thought OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE?!
Having grown up with this, I was perpetually kicking the ball, until I married Lucy, we had numerous kite eating trees and I think Woodstock was in love with Snoopy. I had a fort called sopwith camal
Ooh, it's also an interesting layer in that, ultimately, it's a medium–so what do we, the readers, learn by Charlie Brown not kicking the football? What might we have learned, or missed out on learning, if he *had* kicked it?
I reread so many of these strips so often as a kid, and now my kids are reading them, and it's wonderful to have that same frame of reference for so many things. To have a new generation get it when you say "I bumped my head!" or "My cold cereal is getting soggy" or "But why did you have to drop it?!" or "I want to look at MY [stars]" or– I'll stop, I'll stop 🤣
Another wonderful essay (don’t tell Michael but your writing resonates with me more than his does, haha). The football theme is another variation on “One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” idea. . . Like Rocky and Bullwinkle, Charlie Brown was always written by an adult for adults. One can only hope that the messages settled into the hearts and souls of children as well. Lovely piece of writing. . .
I know this is is off track for this story (which is great!) but my heart was in my mouth for a second when the email preview came through and all I saw was "should Charlie Brown have been allowed to" and I thought OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE?!
Having grown up with this, I was perpetually kicking the ball, until I married Lucy, we had numerous kite eating trees and I think Woodstock was in love with Snoopy. I had a fort called sopwith camal
Ooh, it's also an interesting layer in that, ultimately, it's a medium–so what do we, the readers, learn by Charlie Brown not kicking the football? What might we have learned, or missed out on learning, if he *had* kicked it?
I reread so many of these strips so often as a kid, and now my kids are reading them, and it's wonderful to have that same frame of reference for so many things. To have a new generation get it when you say "I bumped my head!" or "My cold cereal is getting soggy" or "But why did you have to drop it?!" or "I want to look at MY [stars]" or– I'll stop, I'll stop 🤣