Shiftkitty
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Over on Facebook I am in a group that does a lot of "Remember these...?" type posts. Today there was a picture of Walt Disney-themed wooden blocks (along with nostalgic musings of toys that didn't require batteries or have prescribed methods of play). I didn't have Disney blocks, but I did have regular old, generic wooden blocks when I was very young (I don't think I was even walking yet!). I got to fondly remembering seeing how high I could stack the blocks before Putty, our calico semi-foster mother of a cat (who would keep an eye on us when Mom wasn't around), would come by and knock them over with a swish of her tail.
Then another memory crept in. I remembered the raised surfaces that showed the letter of the alphabet and the numbers 0-9. I don't recall at that time if I was speaking or walking, but I do remember thinking that if I could brush some ink or paint on them, I could use them to stamp words on paper. (In fact, I used to do that with Play-Doh, making impressions and learning how to spell several words well before becoming school age even though the letters came out backwards in the clay.)
Now this could just be the result of a naturally curious young mind and some simple application of that curiosity. But couple that with a love of old woodcuts, printing presses, cuneiform writing, and other such things, and I am left wondering if it had something to do with a past life or two as a scribe or printer.
Then another memory crept in. I remembered the raised surfaces that showed the letter of the alphabet and the numbers 0-9. I don't recall at that time if I was speaking or walking, but I do remember thinking that if I could brush some ink or paint on them, I could use them to stamp words on paper. (In fact, I used to do that with Play-Doh, making impressions and learning how to spell several words well before becoming school age even though the letters came out backwards in the clay.)
Now this could just be the result of a naturally curious young mind and some simple application of that curiosity. But couple that with a love of old woodcuts, printing presses, cuneiform writing, and other such things, and I am left wondering if it had something to do with a past life or two as a scribe or printer.