Fred Rogers was an educator. He was a revolutionist and an example. The video above was a remix by PBS Digital Studio that took time out to highlight the true meaning of Mr. Rogers' efforts. There are people in this world, like you and me, that are willing to go on a limb and be different. All you can do is try, something amazing might happen.
Did ever grow anything in the Garden of your Mind?
He asks, "Did ever grow anything in the Garden of your Mind". The garden of your mind is the place where the possibilities are endless, where cows fly and raging dragons roam, where hilltops cradle warm cottages along the breeze and heroic firefighters dance with the flames. Some gardens have been overgrown with weeds, burnt by disappointment, and destroyed by invasion. We must maintain our gardens despite the consistent efforts of the ugly, keeping it beautiful and boundless. When we stop and observe and realize that the clutter is not us, we are not those weeds. Those are only the obstacles, a continuous exercise to keep our gardens beautiful. Then we can truly be free to grow our gardens.
Where is the love?
When the church is sexually abusing children and children are bringing guns to school to take the lives of their friends, when parents aren't home for dinner, and food is more dangerous then the medicine it makes us realize that we have reason to doubt and fear. But we are not our fear nor our doubt. We need to feel those emotions, understand them and let them go. We are free to grow our gardens if we clear of the clutter.
To the abuser, the damaged, the killers, the haters:
You are not the clutter that you have been exposed to, that covers everything that you want to see be, it can be cleared. Stop listening to the clutter instead sit back and observe it.
