Song Burst Silliness

I let loose a song burst this morning as the kids were getting ready for school, "the soft and quiet nerfmobile keeps bouncing back for more." That's all I could remember. My wife, who is almost 6 years younger than yours truly was skeptical that such a toy existed. I found one for sale on ebay.

Our brains retain all sorts of dormant snippets of song, smells, sights that float to the surface for no apparent reason. Sometimes a song from the 60's or early 70's will flash me into a scene from then. No, I  was not part of the drug culture. Its a feature of mid age and older than allows us older folks to pass on what we have experienced to the younger generations.

That doesn't seem as relevant today.  Hundreds of years ago a son took up his father's trade and a daughter learned her mother's skills. Now technology changes by the second. New jobs are born and new industries push out old ones. Such staples of my childhood,  IBM, GM, Sears and Roebuck have lived through drastic change and restructuring. New names,  Apple, Google, Facebook, Intel and Cisco now command center stage. What seems to be important to the next generation was invented after our time.

Yet when past generations passed on their skills, they also passed on morals. We may not have the skills kids need. Hopefully we have found the morals.