I was thinking one morning about inventions. We were taught in elementary school about the importance of the cotton gin, which revolutionized the production of cotton for the growing of that grain in our country. Eli Whitney is credited with that innovation, I believe.

Then there was electricity, discovered by Benjamin Franklin one day when he was flying his kite, as the story goes. What great changes that brought to the country!

Other developments have come along -- one in particular - the atom bomb - not to the benefit of all!

Inventions - who was it that thought up the shoe lace, for instance? Or the zipper? Or the light bulb? Or television?

Wow! We could go on and on. But much has yet to be “thought up” by our bright and brighter young people. What will they discover?

€ How to fly to Mars?

€ How to make tree leaves edible for humans? (Some are, I believe.)

€ How to swim under water to Bermuda?

€ How to stand alone on a lily pad?

€ How to -- (you name it!).

It's fun to think of such things when one looks out the window at a perfectly normal sunny morning. I say “let's keep thinking, but also try to keep things the way they are!” OK with you, readers? I too say, OK!

Dorothy Nelson lives and writes in Auburn