Well, Hannah Platypus won the drawing contest in the Neighborhood of MakeBelieve. Lady Elaine was stunned that her self-portrait on a boomerang didn’t win. The prize was a rainbow. Ah, King Friday. . . .
Before that, Mr. Rogers sang what has become one of my favorite Mr. Rogers’ songs: “What do you do with the mad that you feel?” It made more sense in context. Mr. Rogers was planning to make a rainbow in his home with a water bottle and a fan. It didn’t work. So he called Mr. McFeely (who has Mr. Rogers’ middle name, I found out) for advice and found out he’d planned a thing that’s wrong. I think that I actually saw Mr. Rogers slam the phone down! And then he sang his song.
Funny thing. . . . I bit my tongue this evening at dinner, and I responded (unwittingly) like Mr. Rogers said you should when you’re mad. I pounded — not clay, but the table. Isaac thought it was a scream!
So it’s a lesson for all of us. Mr. Rogers learned how to make a rainbow, Lady Elaine learned that boomerangs make silly canvases, Mommy learned that she had already digested Mr. Rogers’ song, and Isaac learned that Mommy’s funny when she bites her tongue.
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Yes, that song is pretty good. But not as good as my personal favorite, “You can never go down, you can never go down, you can never go down the drain.” LOL!
Seriously, I like that show, it’s the only one I feel good about Miss M watching. It’s a special person who can think that highly of children and take them seriously. C.S. Lewis seemed to respect children, too.