{"id":521,"date":"2012-03-20T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningnewsinverse.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2012-03-20T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:40:42","slug":"welcome-to-a-birds-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to ‘A Bird’s Eye View’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, you\u2019re in the right place; you don\u2019t have a virus; well, maybe you do, but that\u2019s a whole\u00a0different subject.\u00a0 This is <\/em>Morning News in Verse and you are either receiving this in your email (thank you subscribers, we love you) or are getting it through Facebook (we love you too, but it\u2019s more like a puppy love).\u00a0 Due to an increasingly diminishing number of requests, we\u2019ve made a decision to change our format from mostly verse and some prose to mostly prose and some verse.\u00a0 Our number of \u2018hits\u2019 tell us that it\u2019s what you would prefer as well.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ll still make fun of the Headlines, Money, Sports and Life, but only occasionally; rather, we\u2019ll proffer samples of \u2018A Bird\u2019s Eye View\u2019 of life-observations.\u00a0 Sometimes our observations will be from the road, usually the one less traveled, and sometimes they will be from just around the corner.\u00a0 Sometimes we\u2019ll write about insignificant, Andy Rooney-kinds of things and other times we\u2019ll offer observations on this process of growing older, but not necessarily up.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s start with our new name, \u2018A Bird\u2019s Eye View\u2019; it is, of course, a play on words of the name Sparrow, but it also has some family history to it.\u00a0 In 1940 our parents moved to Novato, a small, northern California town, where our father, Jack (yes, Jack Sparrow, but no relation to Johnny Depp) bought the Novato Advance<\/em>, a local, weekly newspaper, and at 26 became the youngest newspaper publisher in California.\u00a0 It was truly a \u2018Mom and Pop\u2019 business \u2013 our dad hand-set the type and operated the printing presses while our mom, who could also operate\u00a0a pretty mean linotype machine, attended the town meetings to gather the local gossip, or news as she called it.\u00a0 She also spiced up the paper by chronicling the comings and goings of Novato\u2019s social elite, such as they were.\u00a0 Those familiar with small town newspapers know what we\u2019re talking about.\u00a0 Jim and Mabel Cranston were visited on Sunday by Mabel\u2019s sister, Iris from Ukiah; she brought an apple pie \u2013 Jim had seconds.<\/em> \u00a0Our mother originally called her column, A Little Bird Told Me<\/em> and later changed it to A Bird\u2019s Eye View<\/em>.\u00a0 When we recently asked her about why she changed the name, she first said, \u201cWho are you two?\u201d\u00a0 At 93, we forgave her for not remembering the details of a newspaper column from nearly 70 years ago.\u00a0 Our theory is this: etymologically speaking, \u2018A Little Bird Told Me\u2019 sounds like second-hand information, like we\u2019re not sure if this is true, but we heard from someone that\u00a0yadda, yadda, yadda. \u2018A Bird\u2019s Eye View\u2019, on the other hand, seems to suggest more of a first-hand, optimum perspective of things.\u00a0 Our mother could neither confirm nor deny our theory.<\/p>\n

However the name came about, we\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s ours<\/em> and we\u2019re bringing it out of retirement.\u00a0 We hope you enjoy our new direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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