Don’t believe everything you read.
Several years ago, my brother & his wife and I spent two wonderful weeks exploring Guatemala. Our guide at the fantastic Mayan city of Tikal was a fellow named Antonio Diaz. Antonio was a delightful character, proud to tell us of history and herbs, legends and the filming of StarWars there. After our day together, we thanked Antonio heartily, gave him our cards, and invited him to visit it he ever came our way.
A year later, I was surprised to receive an email from Antonio. It was a letter in broken Spanish, pointing people to some of my photographs from our day together and inviting his customers to come back any time. Now I receive somewhat odd emails from Antonio once or twice a year.
This morning’s email said “With Con cariño y respeto para usted” and contained a PowerPoint show about how screwed up the world is, it’s on tv so it must be true, with examples. My Spanish is not so hot, but I could figure out El hijo del Dr Spock se suicidó.
Oh, no. I interviewed Dr. Spock’s hijo (son) for my book. Michael’s a world-class museum designer. Suicide? Tell me it isn’t so.
It’s not.
The Urban Legends pages explain how Billy Graham, among others, used this suicide story to discredit Dr. Spock’s position that parents should not spank their children. Some fundamentalists believe in “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”
The internet gives and the internet taketh away. I’m glad Michael Spock is still with us. He’s a great guy.
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