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John Prine's Right
It makes me think back when we were both poor and cheap and our TV broke. Our sons were 5 and 3. We went two years with no TV. Neither son has ever watched much TV. We also refused to buy video games. They spent their teenage years practicing French horn and trombone after finishing homework. Bought them both a free ride to college.
We've cut back our TV watching. We rely mostly on Netflix, watching either old movies or foreign films that never got screen time here. I've got an unfinished area in the basement for a media room, but I don't want to spend thousands of dollars to become even more passive when I could spend the money on more active and creative pursuits, like sailing and photography.
I still think John Prine was on the right track:
"Blow up your TV, throw away your papers
Move to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own."
- "Spanish Pipe Dream" (AKA "Blow Up Your TV")
That song also has one of my favorite Prine lyrics:
"For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve"
BTW, it took us a while, but four years ago we bought a little land in the country, built a house, planted a 3/4 acre garden along with a couple of peach trees as well as blueberry and blackberry bushes and fig trees. We no longer subcribe to the newspaper. ;-)
Doug
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