Articles by Theda Kleinhans Reichman
Rudyard Kipling’s epic adventure “The Jungle Book” is a classic tale about a young boy named Mowgli who was raised by a family of wolves deep in the Indian jungle. When the jungle animals are confronted by the fierce tiger Shere Kahn (voiced menacingly by Idris Elba) who wants to kill the boy; Mowgli (Neel Sethi) escapes into the jungle where he is befriended by Baloo the bear (Bill Murray) and a black panther named Bagheera.
“If we could talk to the animals…” is a catchy lyric from the movie “Dr. Doolittle.” And any of us who have a pet actually do talk to our animal friends whenever we chat with our cat, or verbally schmooze with the dog. But how often do they ever talk back to us, unless they are a parrot or a well-trained crow capable of saying more than “nevermore.”
As I sat down to write this column I marveled to myself: “Where did the summer go?” It seemed that spring had just recently sprung, then came summer with the kids home from school and now suddenly not only spring, but summer has slipped by. At this rate Christmas and Chanukah are just around the corner.