Not a wonderful day in the neighborhood.

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon <joym999@aol.com>]

As a tribute to the late Fred Rogers, here's a selection of quotes: 

"People say to my wife, `What's he like?' What you see is what you 
get. It's just who I happen to be." 

"I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our 
honest self." 

"Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of 
emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my 
feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to 
express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. 
That's what the world needs." 

"I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I 
was a neighbor who just came in for a visit." 

"You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be 
acceptable and to feel acceptable." 

"I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always 
tried to understand the other person and invariably I've discovered 
that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong 
way many times." 

"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's 
easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not 
my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I 
consider those people my heroes." 

"There's a generous current in the American spirit. And if we can 
simply give voice to that once in a while, I think it's a good 
message." 

--Joywitch M. Curmudgeon, who has an un-curmudgeonly affection for 
Mister R.