Monday, January 26, 2009

Mom Song

This is dedicated to my beautiful wife. I can't wait to hear her say all these things!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

New Year, New TV, New Numbness

One of the coolest things about the new year is that TV shows return with full season to air through May. This includes my 2 favorites on TV now, Lost and 24. Jess is also glued to the return of American Idol which starts next Tuesday. It is an exciting time for fans of these shows and others that are starting back up. But why are we excited? Is it because of the full entertainment value that these shows offer? Possibly. Is it because we have been without good TV for so long? Maybe. Is it because it is a way for us to escape our daily pressures and stress? Probably. My thought is that it is probably a mixture of the three. I know that when I watch Lost, it is for entertainment value and also involves me figuring out a puzzle that I enjoy. But when I watch pretty much anything on E!, it is just numbing the pain of life. TV has provided the world with a way to ignore and numb whatever we don't want to deal with. Sure, there are other vices that do the exact same thing and pretty much anything done in excess takes on this characteristic. But TV is so prevalent in our lives and we don't even realize how much it affects us. So in this new year, I am going to try to not avoid the silence, push into the pain, and turn off the TV some. Sure I will continue to watch my favorite TV shows, but in the times when I just have the TV on because I am bored or because I don't want to think about things are the times when I will hopefully turn the TV off. December may roll around and I may not have been as good at this as I had hoped but if you don't try, you won't know. So I invite you to join me in this experiment and see what happens. Who knows, maybe the silence and pain turns out to be Love all along.