Because Captain Kangaroo debuted on CBS 57 years ago today!
From 2012
Aug 12
No more ‘negative waves’….
Every day I see dozens and dozens of posters, cute sayings, philosophical meanings, etc. Most I’ll read, maybe chuckle, and move on. Occasionally I’ll grab one (even one without a cat on it), and repost it on another site for others to enjoy.
Over the weekend, I found one that caught my attention and dug into my psyche. It follows. Read it once. twice. three times a lady.
This grabbed me not because of great or average people. You don’t really have a choice as to whether you are ‘great’ or even ‘average’. But you DO have a choice to NOT be ‘small’. And you make that choice every day of your life.
A really entertaining movie is ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and a BUNCH of other people. It is that oxymoron called a ‘comedic war movie’, but they pull it off. (Despite having the most unlikely theme song in the history of war movies.)
‘No more negative ways….’
In this movie, Donald Sutherland plays a tank commander called ‘Oddball’. Throughout the movie his mantra is about people spouting ‘negative waves’. He’s kind of a hippy, 20+ years before the hippy movement. He preaches that what you speak, is what you live and if you spout ‘negative waves’, you’ll get ‘negative waves’ back.
Oddball was right. You CAN choose not to be a ‘small person’. Cease the ‘negative waves’.
At least strive to be ‘average’.
Feb 01
Shipping Containers.. How I adore thee!
I LOVE this design! (The glass would cost more than the containers!)
I want to live in one.
A shipping container. Rather, a home MADE from shipping containers. And no, you don’t move them around. Despite being made from objects that are constantly ‘moving’, these are NOT ‘mobile homes’.
Not familiar with this trend? It’s growing like crazy. People are taking shipping containers, (like the ones you see by the docks and on the backs of countless freight trains crossing the country, minus the graffiti of course) and building homes from them. If it sounds too bizarre for your tastes, you might want to Google this phenomenon. The homes can end up looking like something Frank Lloyd Wright would have thought up. (And on the flip side, they can also end up looking like an ugly shipping container that you bought to live in!) You’ve gotta be careful with your decorating, but hey… lighting can hide a lot of flaws.
You can buy a 300+ square foot container for between 2,000 and 2,500 dollars. And that’s delivered. After that, you can pretty much do anything you want to create the finished product. In the end, you can have a third as much in your home as you would in conventional construction.
Believe me, when all is said and done, it doesn’t HAVE to look like you live in a box. Let’s build one!