Blogapalooza 2016 - Day 4: Thank you Mr. Rogers

Dear Mr. Rogers,

     Thank you for encouraging creativity, musicality, curiosity,

Photo from PBS

manners and shoe tying in my childhood (I wanted to learn to tie my shoes because Mr. Rogers could). Thank you for making adults the good guys (it was the adults who went to King Friday's Kingdom of Make-Beleive, not the kids), rather than today's stereotype of out of touch, over bearing, money obsessed individuals, and showing us how to have fun at very little cost (paper bags and yarn anyone?). Thank you for pushing for funding so we could (and for the moment still can) enjoy educational and positive programming without learning to want and 'need' every product we see.
     Thank you for teaching me that it was is OK to be different (even if I do have a hard time with that concept now that I am beyond you loving reach).
     Thank you for being a wonderful human being. I am glad to have been your neighbor.

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I wrote this almost three years ago and somehow didn't post it.  Then I accidentally hit the 'Save' button instead of 'Publish' last night!  Oops!