<p>[Mister</a> Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital Studios - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM]Mister”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM)</p>
<p>Searched but not sure if this was posted. It’s pretty fantastic.</p>
<p>If you haven’t watched it yet, it’s best with good headphones if you have any handy.</p>
<p>I loved this! Thanks so much for the link!</p>
<p>Mr. Rogers has come up a few times for me the past few days. I miss having him around… he was truly one of a kind.</p>
<p>Here’s an xkcd my son showed me just the other day. The mouse-over comment says “Mr Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image… that’s exactly what you find there, too. He’s exactly what he appears to be.”</p>
<p>[xkcd:</a> Temper](<a href=“http://xkcd.com/767/]xkcd:”>xkcd: Temper)</p>
<p>That remix is so sweet. Thanks</p>
<p>My oldest adored Mr Rogers – we watched it religiously, and he wrote Mr Rogers a letter when he was about 4. About 9 months later two handwritten letters arrived, one for me, and one for my son, from Fred Rogers. He apologized for the delay, but said he liked to write to each of his friends and that took some time, so thank you for being “patient and special” to him. The content of Mr Rogers’ letter made it plain that he had, in fact, read my son’s letter. The one for me was brief, and thanked me for being a parent who took the time to make sure a 4 year old could write a letter. How cool is that?</p>
<p>Truly one of the most inspirational men who ever lived. I saw the video on Yahoo and couldn’t help but shed a tear.</p>
<p>My kids adored Mr. Rogers, and I think he made a huge difference for them. The quiet, the calm, the reassurance, the acceptance–he was one of a kind.</p>
<p>That being said, I really didn’t care for the video. I posted the following elsewhere a couple weeks ago, after spending the day helping my H take his HS students on a decidedly lowkey day to the beach and tidal wetlands to do science and just be outside:</p>
<p>"My thoughts on this: it doesn’t betray Mr. Rogers’ core principles–the idea of thinking, trusting your mind, looking around. </p>
<p>However, and this is a big however–the medium of this message,would, I think, distress him–the idea that you need repetition and an arrangement and music and soundbitiness to get across his thoughts. </p>
<p>And then thinking more, and grounding my thoughts in the day I spent with [H’s] lovely students at Sandy Hook today, who are, roughly, half the age of my daughter: they are growing up in a world infinitely different from the one in which she did–pre-web, pre-iPod, pre-infinite choice and necessary repetition–and I wonder if they are ever allowed the possibility to slow down and hear Mr. Rogers’ slow and deliberate musings–his quiet questions, his rueful non-commitment–the low-production values of basic, “hmmm–this is kind of neat!”"</p>
<p>I just kind of feel that the video, though well-meaning, is a contradiction of what was important to Fred Rogers.</p>
<p>I was a little too old to watch Mr Rogers as a child, but when I was a nanny in my early 20’s, I think I got more out of his show even more than my charges did. </p>
<p>When D was not quite two, I made a special point to get tickets to see Fred & the neighborhood gang at an anniversary celebration for the local PBS affiliate.
I don’t know how much she got out of it, but I still have the t-shirt I bought her with the trolley. I also wrote him and note and gave him a picture of her. What a wonderful man.</p>
<p>I think Fred Rogers would have enjoyed the remix, and understood that it was a tribute to his way of connecting with children. He had a great sense of humor.
[The</a> Unseen Side of Mister Rogers - Los Angeles Arts - Public Spectacle](<a href=“http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/03/mister_rogers_and_me.php]The”>http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/03/mister_rogers_and_me.php)</p>
<p>Love what you said, garland. I was a contemplative child and agree fully.</p>
<p>garland: Maybe so, but I enjoyed it. The basic metaphor is so arresting. As I always your beautiful writing is arresting too, especially about the science trip.</p>
<p>To all – it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Thank you for being CC neighbors.</p>
<p>The older I get, the more I appreciate Mr Rogers’ approach to people.</p>
<p>I am afraid I have to agree with garland - I didn’t much care for it. Mr. Rogers wasn’t about trendiness, gimmicks or being “cool.” I don’t think the video is very true to him or his vision.</p>
<p>I liked the song on youtube very much – catchy!! When my kids were little, they did not care for Mr. Rogers. They found him to be boring. I think they liked things with more razzle dazzle than he could offer.</p>
<p>I was never a fan of his make believe stuff myself, but I did enjoy his tour of a crayon factory.</p>
<p>Totally agree, VeryHappy. Did not like the fantasy segments, but I did love him. </p>
<p>We watched him some; we watched Sesame Street some. My kids really loved movie musicals, Disney and other more sophisticated ones too. So we didn’t catch the shows every day.</p>
<p>FWIW, I don’t believe that the intended audience for the remix is small children, but rather adults who have fond memories of Mr. Rogers from their own childhoods.</p>