optimistic niallism

The Minnesota hockey community lost an absolutely incredible woman yesterday along with her three children.

Hold your loved ones close. Tomorrow isn't promised to anyone.

A few months before he passed away in 2003, a 74 year old children’s television host sat down in the same studio where he had filmed 895 episodes over 33 years and recorded one last message. It wasn’t for children. It was for the adults who had grown up watching him.

Fred Rogers hosted Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on American public television from 1968 to 2001. For over three decades he walked into the same set, changed into a cardigan and sneakers, looked directly into the camera, and spoke to children as if each one of them was the only person in the room. He never raised his voice, never talked down to his audience, and never rushed a single moment.

In that final recording, he looked into the camera one last time and said “I’m just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us. And I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are.”

I never understood how sanctions were an "alternative". So you kill tens of thousands, or even millions, but you do it slowly, so they suffer more. So they have to try and cling to hope for some miracle that the supplies that would save their lives, will somehow be smuggled in to the country, or that the sadistic U.S. eugenists will decide to show some compassion?

via: @/mnwild on X