That's the story of the grey goose

Like many modern children, Isaac has an Amazon wish list. So I listed an old album of Burl Ives singing children's songs that I remember fondly from my childhood, and my mother bought it for Izzy -- not because she remembers me enjoying it, but because she and her sisters loved it when they were kids.

I have to say I'm a sucker for this -- the nostalgia of two generations at work, reaching into the future to create a memory for the next generation. I wonder in what format Isaac will someday buy this album for his kids? In the 1950s my mom and aunts had a 78 of the album, when I was a kid in the 1970s we still had an old 78 (from a yard sale), and now Isaac has a CD that was ordered on the Internet. It seems like things aren't really that different 50 years later. Don't talk to me about the iPod, though, because my kid is only four months old and he's too young for music that only exists in a virtual format.