Dad watches a myriad of TV shows. Some are much more amusing than others. To be honest my favorite show, which I actually got him hooked on, is Ancient Aliens. Just the subject matter itself, a show where "scientists" make the argument that aliens have visited our species in the past, is hysterical. As I sit and write this I'm chuckling just thinking about it. Besides the show also boasts a guy with the craziest hair style I have seen in a long time and every time he's on the screen I'm fascinated by his coif. It's like a train wreck you can't turn your eyes away from. I highly recommend it.
There are other shows, sitcoms, local news, etc, all routine programming to keep a mind somewhat occupied and free of boredom. It was a long winter for all of us. I quite often catch myself listening to these shows from the kitchen or stopping to see snippets as I'm passing through the TV room to let's say, the garage. Dad has found some gem TV programming out there amongst the more obscure TV channels. There’s what I like to call “farm TV”, where ALL the programming is clearly geared towards farming communities in the Midwest. The shows on this channel vary from a guy showing you how to tame your horse (and even how to fire a gun while riding your horse), to farm equipment auctions (tractors are soooo expensive, no wonder we subsidize farmers), to long term weather predictions allowing you to make preparations for either selling or storing your crop based on what the market price is and will potentially be. Then there are the religious channels with their stadium sermons on Sunday mornings. Usually it's someone with a southern accent, speaking with a slow drawl about repentance and giving everything up to God, because we as humans are too weak a species to be able to do anything without God's help and it is this reason why we oftentimes fail. At least that seems to be the message preached as I understand it. They're all fascinating. Sometimes I sit and watch these shows with Dad. More often than not though I'm running around doing stuff in the house and as mentioned only hear bits and pieces of these shows. I get the biggest kick out of these shows and smile every time.
There was one Saturday we were watching a show and they were doing a story about an Opera singer from the Met who suffered a stroke. It was heart wrenching to hear what he and his family went through. Everything they mentioned about his recovery hit home after going through it with Dad. In this instance; however, a year or so later and the guy is back to singing at the Met again. Truly inspiring, again, how our bodies can heal themselves. Always one to lighten the mood, I looked over at Dad and said, "Now, why couldn't you have had that type of stroke? Look at him, he's back to singing opera at the Met." Dad smiled and waved his hand, signalling he didn't know why. "Guess it's the luck of the draw huh?" I commented. He nodded his head and we laughed.
All joking aside, we all know the luck of the drawn was and is on our side, because his stroke should have killed him and it didn't and that is the truth we are acutely aware of, despite his handicaps now. Besides, if you can't joke about life, well then what are you doing? It can't be much fun.
There are other shows, sitcoms, local news, etc, all routine programming to keep a mind somewhat occupied and free of boredom. It was a long winter for all of us. I quite often catch myself listening to these shows from the kitchen or stopping to see snippets as I'm passing through the TV room to let's say, the garage. Dad has found some gem TV programming out there amongst the more obscure TV channels. There’s what I like to call “farm TV”, where ALL the programming is clearly geared towards farming communities in the Midwest. The shows on this channel vary from a guy showing you how to tame your horse (and even how to fire a gun while riding your horse), to farm equipment auctions (tractors are soooo expensive, no wonder we subsidize farmers), to long term weather predictions allowing you to make preparations for either selling or storing your crop based on what the market price is and will potentially be. Then there are the religious channels with their stadium sermons on Sunday mornings. Usually it's someone with a southern accent, speaking with a slow drawl about repentance and giving everything up to God, because we as humans are too weak a species to be able to do anything without God's help and it is this reason why we oftentimes fail. At least that seems to be the message preached as I understand it. They're all fascinating. Sometimes I sit and watch these shows with Dad. More often than not though I'm running around doing stuff in the house and as mentioned only hear bits and pieces of these shows. I get the biggest kick out of these shows and smile every time.
There was one Saturday we were watching a show and they were doing a story about an Opera singer from the Met who suffered a stroke. It was heart wrenching to hear what he and his family went through. Everything they mentioned about his recovery hit home after going through it with Dad. In this instance; however, a year or so later and the guy is back to singing at the Met again. Truly inspiring, again, how our bodies can heal themselves. Always one to lighten the mood, I looked over at Dad and said, "Now, why couldn't you have had that type of stroke? Look at him, he's back to singing opera at the Met." Dad smiled and waved his hand, signalling he didn't know why. "Guess it's the luck of the draw huh?" I commented. He nodded his head and we laughed.
All joking aside, we all know the luck of the drawn was and is on our side, because his stroke should have killed him and it didn't and that is the truth we are acutely aware of, despite his handicaps now. Besides, if you can't joke about life, well then what are you doing? It can't be much fun.
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