They’re much more comfortable than a computer screen. They can be held, touched, seen and even smelled although smelling newspapers is not recommended, –it’s just the ink evaporating and perhaps the paper itself drying out but it’s a personal thing that a computer cannot match.
Newspapers are warm in winter, at least after they are in the house a few hours. Warm things are much favored by the oldies who, as Jacques Brel wrote, beg warmth from the sun.
Newspapers are at the kitchen table in the morning when the orange juice, coffee and eggs, bacon or cereal are fresh and feeling great as they go sliding down while reading which involves talking in the head or hearing a voice that’s familiar there. It’s good.
Newspapers come with a few pictures, even cartoons, a favorite that goes back to the illiterate days when a colorful comic book was another favorite. Newspapers have the familiar names of the towns and neighborhoods along with the stores, restaurants and other comfortable things that say it’s good. Like life.
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