Contributing writer
The other day I noticed a commercial on TV advertising Gerber baby food. I remembered spending time pushing that food in my babies’ mouths and I did the same for my grandchildren. I always thought the strained food looked unappetizing, but the children seemed to thrive on it.
Another memory came up; when I was in high school in El Dorado, I had a boyfriend who wrote poetry. He wrote some poems about me and put some of them in a little book tied together with a blue ribbon. I then moved to Marion and he moved to New York. He started writing cute little poems and they were published in the Saturday Evening Post. He was employed by the Gerber Food Company, and that impressed me. I know the company is still in business but I wonder where Stephan is.
There has been some argument about whether a whale at Sea World should be destroyed after killing a female trainer. The creature all at once went “native” and killed the women. Should it be put down or be allowed to live? Humans forget that animals sometimes, though trained, return to their original wild habits. I even read that a sweet pussycat turned against its loved owner, so you just can’t trust anything. Wild things, though trained, return to their wild ancestors’ ways with no remembrance of their training.