silverbear
The Boy Who Never Grew Up
While reading a news article this morning I noticed a smokey bear poster ad to the side and it caught my attention. It is the first picture below where he's standing upright holding a shovel and wearing pants.
You know, bears do get around. They like to go for long walks and sometimes visit parks and campgrounds for luncheon dates... just the kind of place where one is likely to see a smokey bear poster. It made me wonder what they think when they see one. I mean, how are they supposed to make sense of them? (Assuming they neither speak nor read English). Does it bring them a lot of anxiety? Wistful thinking if only they could be somebody special like Smokey? Do they have smokey bear poster dreams when they should be hibernating peacefully? What kind of damage are we doing to baby bears trying to find their way in this modern world? I'm going to give this long thought, maybe form a committee of concerned humans. Bears are people too, you know. Well, some of them are.
Silverbear
You know, bears do get around. They like to go for long walks and sometimes visit parks and campgrounds for luncheon dates... just the kind of place where one is likely to see a smokey bear poster. It made me wonder what they think when they see one. I mean, how are they supposed to make sense of them? (Assuming they neither speak nor read English). Does it bring them a lot of anxiety? Wistful thinking if only they could be somebody special like Smokey? Do they have smokey bear poster dreams when they should be hibernating peacefully? What kind of damage are we doing to baby bears trying to find their way in this modern world? I'm going to give this long thought, maybe form a committee of concerned humans. Bears are people too, you know. Well, some of them are.
Silverbear
