January 29, 2004 - Thursday
I regularly listen to National Public Radio news when I'm in the car, but I'm increasingly wondering whether that's such a good idea when there is constant news of people being killed in Iraq, Asians dying of chicken flu, and all of the other kinds of evil that one hears on the radio. Earlier this week, Fresh Air had a guess who had written a book that explored the highly overlooked sex trade in this country and I turned the radio down at first for that one, then switched the channel. It's hard to know how much of "sex," "death," "killed" Harry understands or how much he's actually listening to the words on the radio as opposed to thinking about his own thing. Yet, there are inevitably times when he'll pick up on a certain word and ask about it, like when the wild fires were burning in California, or the earthquake happened a couple of months ago in Iran. I'd think that when it comes to a discussion about the sex trade he'd have very little to latch onto and would be more likely to just tune it out. However, that's certainly not a premise I ought to be banking on for long. He's just too smart and too good with language to miss to much, especially when there's talk and news of the war every day. And actually, he has asked about the war once or twice and I've explained it as best as I could. I guess not asking more about it just shows that it's in there and he's working things through. I guess we ought to listen to more music in the car.


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