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This photo was taken by our daughter, Sarah Timmons, or my wife, depending on who you ask. We were in Rehoboth Beach, DE on Easter Sunday, 2011.


Several years ago, on the way home from a family vacation, I picked up a notebook and quickly recorded an incident that had occurred involving our son. Eventually, I used that story to illustrate something about my spiritual walk as a believer in Christ. Thus began a deliberate attempt to document the significance of everyday events. Almost any ordinary circumstance in daily life can become fodder for another story. This, almost by definition, lends itself to a blog.

Of course, many of the entries here are just ordinary diary style stuff... the stuff of ordinary blogs. Good grief, I don't want to be ordinary.


Friday, December 14, 2012

PBS Digital Studios Remixes

I listen to a lot of Public Broadcasting.  They tell me Public Broadcasting is liberal.  I have some friends who won't listen to it for that reason.  I'm afraid I don't get that argument, and listen frequently anyway.  The other day I heard a discussion about these videos.  They took voices of PBS icons and brilliantly mixed them into songs. (The song starts after a short introduction with just talking.)

I grew up watching Bob Ross.  I never once did any painting, since my brother Buddy got all the talent in that department and anything I ever drew looked pitiful compared to his work.  Ross had a way about him that was mesmerizing.  Part of if was his voice that induced a trance, the other part was was his hair, which you couldn't take your eyes off.




And then there was Mr. Rogers.  I watched him even though I was older than his target age.  Mr. Rogers also had a way of inducing a trance with his voice as well.  He is probably responsible for calming down thousands of kids with ADHD.




And I watched Julia Child occasionally as well.  Again, I never cooked one thing.  I wonder what percentage of viewers actually did after watching her?  Perhaps this is an argument against worrying about the impact of TV on kids.





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