Mister rogers

Mister Roger's final words on his last episode.

Internal Blog Post With a newly published book “The Good Neighbor” and the recent documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” I have been thinking about Mr. Rogers and the impact and influence he has had on the education of young children and the example he has set for those of us who work with children. I remember watching Mr. Rogers as a preschooler and then off and on again with my younger siblings. One of my favorite parts of the show was when he would use Picture, Picture so I got to see…

File this under things so lovely, we never even considered them possible: A movie about Mr. Rogers is in the works. It's nearly the best Mr. Rogers-related thing I can imagine happening, second only to actually being able to have a trolley-tunnel wall in my house. The script's story line is currently under wraps, but I think we can all presume that it's uplifting and we'll laugh and cry and zip up our cardigans and cry some more. Mr. Rogers always made us feel safe, didn't he? Except for…

In 1991, Fred Rogers received a letter from an author working on a book about others' favorite books. More than likely, it was a book about famous people's favorite books. But you wouldn’t know it from Mister Rogers’ characteristically gracious typed reply, above.

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return,” stated Milan Kundera.

The small but powerful fact comes from Dear Mr. Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?: Letters to Mr. Rogers.