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I promise to pray for you, and absolutely shut off the news. It’s both maddening and depressing. Fox is awful. I can’t stand the talking head pundits. I never got engaged in the fiscal cliff fiasco and talk, and knew precisely how it would end. The GOP are entirely predicable. I find solace in prayer, old time movies, like “Going My Way” and books and of course my family and my good friends here.

If I had a dollar for every time some Fox talking head screeched “fiscal cliff”, I’d be rich. SO sick of it. And as for Fox in general, I knew it was going to be bad the night after the election, when Hannity came on and said he had “evolved” on immigration. Who needs that? You can’t have peace and listen to that kind of talk.

Thanks again, Onyx. FR is like an island of sanity to me.

I find solace in prayer, old time movies, like “Going My Way” and books and of course my family and my good friends here.

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Have also been fascinated with a number of old movies lately as well.

Was watching one last night with a teenage Shirley Temple. Don’t even know what the title was. So many themes ran through this movie: respect for parents, respect for the FATHER of the home (young girl took her father’s coat and hung it up when he came home from work ...a simple gesture of respect.) Mother was in the home, available, gentle — respect for military, PRAYER before meals, belief in God, etc. Just unbelievable how movies and culture has changed .... and it was not like women were disrespected ...more men delighted in them, and cherished them.

I KNOW that there were bad family situtions with overly dominieering fathers and women who were abused ....but don’t we STILL have those societal ills? What have we traded and what have we gotten in return for leaving these values behind in the name of progress? Is it really worth it for women to bust their butts all day at work just to slog home and be half there for their kids? (I ask MYSELF this question all the time!)

But, yes, watching the “old days” is highly therapeutic, but also highly tear inducing at times. I can’t even make it through an old Walton’s episode anymore without bawling, thinking of days gone by.