TV

For many reasons, I stopped watching television a few years ago, and I still haven't missed it. 

But a month or two ago, Peter hooked up an antenna for my idle tv and got the free stations for me. It hasn't been bad. There is one news/public interest station that, unlike the others, is not commie propaganda and is informative on many levels. I have also watched some old black and white westerns that I enjoyed. As I ate my suppertime nachos this evening, I watched an episode from 1957 of Tales of Wells Fargo. I am old enough to remember when it was a regular show that I watched with my daddy on Sunday evenings, I think it was. Like the rest of the country, my daddy liked westerns, and I enjoyed being with my daddy  

Today I saw the show from the perspective of the old woman and retired psych nurse that I am, and I have some comments to make: The women dressed modestly and appreciated a sincere compliment from a man. There was a clear difference between good and bad. The bad guys were not the good guys. Dale's character displayed wisdom and confidence, and he took time to figure out the situation. He wasn’t driven by anger or revenge but by justice and doing right. The townspeople were glad when the good guys won. At the end of the show, Dale spoke words that could have come straight from Aesop. Today he concluded, “A man is like a rope. He’s only as strong as its thinnest part." Love a good moral to a story.