Wind and Ribbons

It was windy as everybody left Periwinkle County, going in all directions on their group vacation awsy from one another.

It reminded Claire Randall of when she was a little girl and asked her father to cut down all the trees so there would be no wind to blow her hair ribbons.

She grew out of thiking that the symptom is the cause. As she listened to the talk shows on the radio, though, in their 1951 Studebaker, along with the political news, she realized that the loudest voices have never grown beyond thinking that it is the trees that cause the wind.

Her hsuband, Randall, was thinking that the radio in the Studebaker was the best car radio they ever had and that Jed Bozos next invention should be an omnibus gadget that could turn any current technology into the ones before it. You could just turn the knob back to the level of technology you grew up with. It would be nice, he thought, to hear the voices of Murrow or Cronkite or Jennings instead of those of Limbaugh and Beck and O'Reilly.