Just finished the Mr. Rogers documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” which helped me articulate why that show appealed to me so much as a kid.
So many shows sold us distraction for boredom, and he gave us kindness, empathy, sincerity, and radically for television, moral clarity.
So many shows sold us distraction for boredom, and he gave us kindness, empathy, sincerity, and radically for television, moral clarity.
How I missed the boat to stop paying attention to him in early adulthood.
Contemplating the enormity of the 9/11 attacks, for example, ordained minister Fred Rogers returns to the airwaves and urges viewers... tikkun olam, the Hebrew injunction to repair the world.
Wow.
Contemplating the enormity of the 9/11 attacks, for example, ordained minister Fred Rogers returns to the airwaves and urges viewers... tikkun olam, the Hebrew injunction to repair the world.
Wow.
Here was a man who observed the Kennedy assassination and the Challenger disaster, whose first thought was: How do I explain this to and comfort the children?
