Source : Wikipedia
Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. The strip was syndicated daily from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. At its height, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. To date, more than 30 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been printed.
Great idea to post comic strips!
…and Heart your speaking out of my heart.
Hehe. Cute. Comic strips encourage our sense of Humor and is good for so many things, health, social relations,creativity, feeling of being alive, self-esteem and so much more. Did you know that on average a child laugh 200 times every day? Adults laugh only 15 times per day. We should surround our self with children all the time, and let them show us what makes life so much fun.
Perhaps Calvin is in the moment. His moment. Following what his heart was telling him, instead of what society expects… Didn’t Einstien leave school at 15? Who knows what Calvin would have become after he grew up.
The teacher didnt notice him, not being ‘there’ ?? I remember when i was little and i was daydreaming and looking outside the window, or thrying to come up a melody listening to the birds singing (which -for me- it was louder than the voice of the teacher )the teacher used to say “Annie are you there?” or “Annie go on (reading)” (and my friend beside me would tell me where to start from :) )..
We should let children free..find what they are interested in..let them play… experience the world with all their senses..and let them lead…
Love and Graditude
Annie
I’ve always found Calvin to have a healthy iconoclasm that belied the parental strictures, conventional wisdom and even reality.
Hobbes challenged Calvin’s assumptions by being a stuff tiget to begin with yet constantly impacting Calvin’s moment by moment experience, both as an antagonist as well as a co-conspirator.
The 2 of them were a healthy antidote to complacency and staid thinking. I was constantly enthralled by the little koan like lessons the comic strip presented.
Thank you, Bill Watterdson, I miss you.
” .. the wrong attitude OF most…’
Sorry wrong.. typing!!
Thelma
‘I hope the teacher didn’t say anything important!!’
This is the wrong attitude or most people!
To do or think of something else while you are in place! We lose the ‘precious moments’ of PRESENT.
I think, since I was a child, in this respect, I was wise. I was always listening and paying attention to other people’s talking, to my parents, teachers and friends. I may sound ‘Dull’, but then it was so easy for me to remember everything. Memory is the basis of knowledge and then repetition and concentration. It is the exercise for our ’senses’ and then just by ‘forgetting’ the material senses, we start experiencing the REAL world, the parallel.
LOVE,
THELMA