The Man's Prayer

Over the past 7 days I’ve been feeling like a piñata.  Emotionally, that is.  My body is fine.  I’ve run the gambit on emotions, extremely high to extremely low and everything in between.  It’s not just in my head.  Three separate rather major emotional issues came up over the past week.   No, I won’t go into details, other than to say that they all involve my interactions with different people in my past and present and that each issue can’t be singularly lumped into the set of “good” emotions or “bad” emotions.  They are all complex and were overlapping a bunch of times over this week.  I was being pulled in many different directions and I am not used to it.

I am not a drama king and will never be accused of it.  The Drama Kings and Drama Queens know full well how to ride out the waves of emotion.  I don’t seem to have those self defense mechanisms.  It takes a lot to let emotions get to me.  But once they do, I have a hard time dealing with my reactions to them, whether they are good or bad.  I’m just glad that I don’t foresee these kinds of things happen week after week.  It was just a perfect storm of high and low swells this week.

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That’s it.  I don’t want to talk any more about feelings.  It’s time to discuss the man’s prayer.

"I'm a man,
but I can change,
if I have to,
I guess."
-- The Red Green Show on PBS

It's time for another trip down memory lane.  PBS was a major channel in my family's house when I was growing up.  There were shows for every age level.

--- I watched Sesame Street for a long time. This was back when they focused on the preschool / kindergarten ages instead of the even younger set they go after now with Elmo all the time.  

--- Then Reading Rainbow focused on the elementary school years.

--- There was Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? for the late elementary school years and middle school

--- This was followed by the Red Green Show for the middle school years and maybe freshman year of high school

The Red Green Show is one of those influential television shows that everyone should at least watch a season's worth.  It is good, clean, wholesome comedy that the whole family can watch.

We can’t forget about all of the epic Ken Burns documentaries.  That guy is / was the rock star of period piece documentaries that were actually entertaining enough to keep middle schoolers interested, as opposed to most of the others.

I don't get the stigma that accompanies PBS.  You know, I'm old enough to remember when PBS only went on one pledge drive a year.  Those were the days.  Now it seems like they do it every other month.

I don’t really have any overarching theme with these PBS comments.  I just wanted to get them out there.