An old typewriter in Grandpa’s Main Street office with a less than standard keyboard.
A fascinating bit of magic seeing black letters appear on white paper from tap-tapping of tiny fingers.
Curious grandchildren treated to multicoloured Lifesaver’s hidden in the pigeonholes of the old oaken roll-top desk.
Hop, skip and jive into the future,
through elementary and past high school years,
textbooks and notebooks, pens and pencils traded for
secretarial school with ‘real’ QWERTY typed in classes
lined up with good spelling and gathering speed,
squeezed in before a ‘real’ career in nursing.
Fast forward twenty seven years,
A grand leap to Texas Tech University to expand nursing education with the only available pre-requisite
a newly formed computer based English class
complete with keyboard and new technology ~
e-mails passed back and forth between arborite university desks ~
A fascinating bit of magic seeing black letters appear on silver screens.
Oaken roll-top desk replaced by black desk-top computers or shiny lap-tops, key boards easy and standard for adult fingers.
No room for pigeonholes and Lifesavers, but a culmination of
incidental education about key boards and magic lettering.
“Nothing is incidental.”
~ Pocan Ioan Valentin
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