Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 06, 2021

This time 10 years ago, Richard posted a blog entry about this strip and the one 2 days ago: 

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2011/12/yesterdays-cul-de-sac-december-3-2011.html 

The here link Richard pointed to has moved to this archived webpage: 

http://www.weeklystorybook.com/comic_strip_of_the_daycom/2011/12/you-dont-have-to-be-a-star-baby-to-dance-on-my-manhole-cover.html

A childlike sense of wonder can be various things, but I don’t think I’d want to give child-confusing examples.

Her eyes get quite a workout in this strip. She sure looks funny in panel 4. LOL

If I was ‘Childlike Sense of Wonder’ I would tell her to go…. well I’d tell her fer sure!!

That’s one hard-working actor. Even when the script makes no sense, she sells it and delivers.

Ah, I remember that sense of wonder * Sniff! *

She did pantomime it pretty recognizably for someone who doesn’t know what it is.

I was wondering….

You know it when you see it. And it can’t be manufactured.

The language in panel 3 :0!

Hallmark is snapping up this scenario in time for Christmas.

I’ve often found a piece of music that enchanted me, but when I studied it and understood what the musicians were doing and even learned how to make the same notes and chords etc. it lost much of its enchantment for me. Maybe this “Childlike Sense of Wonder” is like that.

Another example comes to mind: “a fish doesn’t know what water is because they are immersed in it all the time with no other experience.” Maybe a child just naturally has this sense of wonder, and as they grow up they lose it by too much mental activity and not enough attention paid to emotions. Can more mental activity get it back?

I will have to say, the manhole strips are my absolute favs!!!

Through the Eyes of a Child

The World seems magical

There’s a sparkle in their eyes,

They’ve yet to realize,

The bastards they really are….

“The Eyes of a Child,” Trey Parker

The medium is the message.

And by wondering you have answered your own question!

Anyone else a little scared????? :)

I never lost my child like wonderment, misplaced it, but never lost it. As you get older many wonderments take its place but you never lose it.

Little concerned about Alice’s use of a Grawlix in her speech. Been reading Beetle Bailey cartoons and mimicking Sarge?

Alice was an Early Adopter of the Stanislavsky Method. But she needs to do some research on the meaning of the catch-phrase….