Mr. Rogers became one of my heroes only after I became a middle-aged adult, but my respect for who he was and what he worked for has grown with every passing year. This world lost a wonderful blessing when he passed.
With Love,
Russ
PS Thank you for this wonderful post, Beth.
mister rogers on love
love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like “struggle.” to love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
by far the most important aspect of rogers’s philosophy is the idea that you have to work to keep loving and caring about someone. it’s not a thing that happens once and then ceases. it’s a constant, lifelong process.
Mister Rogers on caring for others around you
if you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. there is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
Mister Rogers on civic duty
we live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. it’s easy to…
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Our 3-year old grandson Thomas has a cold. After we played, it was time for his nap and for me to get back to work.
Russ Towne's A Grateful Man 