About George MacDonald, Lady Aberlin, and Mr. Rogers

This morning, Nancy Brown had a nice review on the American Chestertonian Society blog of the book The Diary of an Old Soul and the White Page Poems, by Betty K. Aberlin.

Well, somehow (don't remember where) I'd recently learned that this Betty K. Aberlin was actually Lady Aberlin of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood fame! So I posted a comment mentioning that fact, and then some googling found that Lady Aberlin had posted a comment on a different blog... and all that got me thinking about Mr. Rogers.

We loved Mr. Rogers in this household when the kids were really little. Many happy half-hours were spent watching his gentle and interesting shows. We loved the tours of factories (I'm a sucker for that kind of field trip). My dad used to watch the show just to enjoy the jazz.

Anyway, the years went by. About three years ago, our oldest gave me this book as a gift: The World According to Mr Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Of course, I got a little teary-eyed. (And wow, according to Amazon there's only one copy available now, selling for over $70! But I'm not selling mine. No. Way.)

Finally, here's a lovely little bit of video; it's a message from Mr. Rogers to all of us grownups.

And Lady Aberlin, if you ever happen to find your way here to the backwaters of the blogosphere, I would be greatly honored if you'd leave a comment....