ELIJAH WATCHING THE BIG BAD PIG ON MOM’s iPAK
CONVERSATION OF ELIJAH AND BUMPA (GRAMPA) ABOUT THE BIG BAD PIG
Good morning, Elijah! You look happy this morning. Whatcha doin’?
Watchin’ a story on Mom’s iPak. I love Mom’s iPak. This one’s REALLY good, Bumpa!
You mean ‘iPad’. What’s it about?
Three liddle wolves and the big bad pig. You know the story!
Hmmm. Well, I do know a story, but I think you have the characters backwards. It’s three little PIGS and a big bad WOLF!
Uhuh! I’m watching it right now, Bumpa. It’s real! The Big Bad Pig destroys the three houses of the three liddle wolves.
There’s a story Bumpa and Gamma grew up with, but it’s the Big Bad Wolf who’s bad. The Big Bad Wolf huffs and he puffs and he blows down two of the three little pigs’ houses but can’t blow down the third little pig’s house because the third little pig build his house of brick. The Big Bad Wolf couldn’t blow it down.
Nope! Different story! This is about the Big Bad Pig. Pigs are greedy, Bumpa. Pigs are nasty! The Big Bad Pig blows up all the houses, even the one made with brick and the one made of concrete. But then the three liddle wolves give up on security. They build a house made of flowers!
So they’re hippies!
What?
Hippies. Hippies were the “flower children.” People who wanted to make America better by ending the Big Bad Pig’s war in Vietnam. Hippies wanted peace.
That’s over my head, Bumpa! I don’t know about Vietnam! Gamma doesn’t talk like that. She knows I’m just liddle. She still changes my diapers. You never ever change my diapers! I like Gamma better!
I’m so sorry, Elijah. Gamma is a much better person than Bumpa.
But here’s the thing. The Big Bad Pig is at the G-7 meeting insulting America’s friends, and we’ll be stuck with his mess!
READ ALONG WITH ELIJAH ON MOM’S IPAK.
Gordon C. Stewart (Bumpa), Chaska, MN, August 24, 2019
Views from the Edge 
Wow! What a great idea — and story. I do hope love/flowers will someday overcome — but the journey seems awfully long. No doubt I will be long gone by that time
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I’m afraid we’ll both be long gone, Mona, and Elijah and his generation will be left with a scorched world.
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That’s what I fear too, Gordon. Elijah and the children and grandchildren of all my cousins and friends are why I sign all those petitions and donate to places like NRDC. I pray we are not too late to ameliorate the damage.
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Carolyn, The Mora Study warned us this was happening and that it 2020 was the year of climate departure, i.e. the year after which there would be no return. We continue to make a mess of it with denial in the driver’s seat here at home.
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