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Thanks to Mr.
I was reminded of the twentieth anniversary of Jim Henson's passing.
While I would love to convey some sort of sadness I simply can't. Jim Henson, and everything he's done, represents to me a celebration of imagination, creativity, and above all making people smile. Not only does his life's work consist of making people laugh, it's making people laugh with things that are genuinely funny or things that reach inside and make you smile.
It's very hard for me to not see something every day that somehow reflects him in some positive way. I have 2 seasons of the Muppet Show, and Dark Crystal on DVD. A little plushie of Beaker, and a song ( linked above ) which lives very strongly as long as I've lived and has constantly re-defined itself and meaning something new whenever I come back to it.
I grew up on the Muppet show, Fraggle Rock and Sesame Street ( which explains why i can count in Spanish) If you keep going back to these shows, unlike a lot today, there's no mean sarcasm or jaded sense of cynicism. While we use cynicism and the like as a somewhat of a defense against dissapointments, we lose site of those good things that do make us smile, by simply not thinking they are real. That in itself is somewhat sad... however..
Please remember, to honor such a great and wonderful man, you can't do so being sad. His life's work is within the smiles he inspired, and for him to keep living on, you simply keep smiling. :)
"Yes, it's one of the basic truths of the physical universe, Sprocket. things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again."
-Doc, from Fraggle Rock
(Please pick up the book "It's not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider"
Thanks to Mr.
I was reminded of the twentieth anniversary of Jim Henson's passing. While I would love to convey some sort of sadness I simply can't. Jim Henson, and everything he's done, represents to me a celebration of imagination, creativity, and above all making people smile. Not only does his life's work consist of making people laugh, it's making people laugh with things that are genuinely funny or things that reach inside and make you smile.
It's very hard for me to not see something every day that somehow reflects him in some positive way. I have 2 seasons of the Muppet Show, and Dark Crystal on DVD. A little plushie of Beaker, and a song ( linked above ) which lives very strongly as long as I've lived and has constantly re-defined itself and meaning something new whenever I come back to it.
I grew up on the Muppet show, Fraggle Rock and Sesame Street ( which explains why i can count in Spanish) If you keep going back to these shows, unlike a lot today, there's no mean sarcasm or jaded sense of cynicism. While we use cynicism and the like as a somewhat of a defense against dissapointments, we lose site of those good things that do make us smile, by simply not thinking they are real. That in itself is somewhat sad... however..
Please remember, to honor such a great and wonderful man, you can't do so being sad. His life's work is within the smiles he inspired, and for him to keep living on, you simply keep smiling. :)
"Yes, it's one of the basic truths of the physical universe, Sprocket. things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again."
-Doc, from Fraggle Rock
(Please pick up the book "It's not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider"
"The question is, WHO CARES?"
Ahh, Jim Henson. I grew up on the original run of the Muppet Show (which was first broadcast on my side of the pond)... I remember laughing until I cried...
I remember how disappointed I was when I heard he had passed away. He left us far too soon, but I am quite certain that he's up there, still making a lot of people laugh.