Three feet of snow! That was a weather record I didn t really want to participate in. But, sure enough, we woke up that cold New Jersey morning to snow that had literally buried the metropolitan New York area. Even New York had been effectively shut down by the storm. Our little guy wanted to go out in the snow that blanketed our backyard. So we bundled him up and watched as he ventured out into that white stuff. And he promptly disappeared! I went out after him and just about disappeared myself. It took a while for that snow to become manageable and for life to get back to normal. But for those of us who have lived through some pretty long and tough winters, there is one word that sustains us through it all: spring.
There’s some predictability in a television adventure series. There’s a formula, so you know how it s going to go. There s a victim you like; a villain you don t like, and a predicament. And you want to see the predicament resolved, but what if the predicament isn t resolved? You see this wrong sense of values as it goes down to three minutes, two minutes, one minute. You know it s going to end very quickly and it s getting worse. The villain you don t like is winning. The victim you really do like, well, how are they going to fix it? And finally, one of the heroes appears on the scene and, suddenly, it s resolved.
There s a reason so many of us grandparents are overcoming our technophobia and venturing into cyberspace. We get to see pictures of our grandchildren as soon as they re taken!