Back up

I need to back up a little bit. The tube ride on the Picadilly Line to Heathrow takes about an hour or so. Half way there a bunch of 9 or 10 year olds get on with some older children. School uniforms are worn in various styles. But that isn't what dumbfounds me. What dumbfounds me is that 2 of the ten year olds and a bunch of the older children are reading the newspaper. Yes, not just a fun, easy to read newspaper but the Metro news which is world news.

Seriously, think of young boys reading the newspaper on the train in the U.S. -- and not just one but a bunch of them. It really made my day because it gives me hope for the literary future of our world. In L.A. to see boys that age reading period would be great. To see them reading world news in the newspaper.... I'm just speechless.

I would have taken a photo of them, but I didn't want them to feel like they were doing anything out of the ordinary. Plus they're children and it's best to protect children, yes?

Yes. I hope my children (when I have them)take such joy in reading the paper when they grow up. :)