Altitude Attitudes

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Mar 14, 2024 · 8m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

The young man barely looked up. He took his seat beside me, with nary a glance in my direction. He immediately opened his small portable laptop computer and fixed a dark screen over the top of it. Perhaps to reduce the glare? To take the heat out of the blue light that screens shed, which is said to be bedeviling our eyesight and disturbing our sleep? Or to ensure privacy while working in a public space? Who knows? He dutifully tucked it away for the few minutes it took the plane to reach a stable altitude and reoriented his laser-like focus toward his phone…