Dave and I made a big (gulp) decision and jumped from basic cable to a box and Netflix. Haven't watched much yet but last night we found the very first episode of Frasier. It appeared in 1993.
Fussy Frasier Crane moved from Boston where he spent a lot of time in a bar called "Cheers" to Seattle where he went from being just a psychiatrist to being a talk show psychiatrist. We were introduced to his job, his brother, Niles, his producer, Roz, his dad, Martin, Martin's caregiver, Daphne and Martin's dog, Eddie.
Also his grand piano and his Eames Chair. Because Frasier had a perfect apartment in which he planned to live alone and have a perfect new life.
But, as we know after we watched eleven seasons from 1993 to 2004, it didn't work out that way. Messiness ensued.
I've just finished leading a 6 week class on a book called "The Gift of Years." I loved it. The book was excellent and the discussion was even better.
Much of the book dealt with being comfortable with change and mystery. I thought about the book and the class the entire time I was watching the pilot episode of Frasier. Here are a couple of quotes from the book:
So mystery, the notion that something wonderful can happen at any time if we will only allow space for it, takes us into a whole new awareness of the immanence of God in time.
Why not walk into the mystery of life until we are comfortable enough with mystery to trust it even at the end?
I'm not sure that, in the eleven years we lived with Frasier, he ever really embraced the mysteries of life but this pilot episode reminded me, once again, that I can't escape them.
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Fussy Frasier Crane moved from Boston where he spent a lot of time in a bar called "Cheers" to Seattle where he went from being just a psychiatrist to being a talk show psychiatrist. We were introduced to his job, his brother, Niles, his producer, Roz, his dad, Martin, Martin's caregiver, Daphne and Martin's dog, Eddie.
Also his grand piano and his Eames Chair. Because Frasier had a perfect apartment in which he planned to live alone and have a perfect new life.
But, as we know after we watched eleven seasons from 1993 to 2004, it didn't work out that way. Messiness ensued.
I've just finished leading a 6 week class on a book called "The Gift of Years." I loved it. The book was excellent and the discussion was even better.
Much of the book dealt with being comfortable with change and mystery. I thought about the book and the class the entire time I was watching the pilot episode of Frasier. Here are a couple of quotes from the book:
So mystery, the notion that something wonderful can happen at any time if we will only allow space for it, takes us into a whole new awareness of the immanence of God in time.
Why not walk into the mystery of life until we are comfortable enough with mystery to trust it even at the end?
I'm not sure that, in the eleven years we lived with Frasier, he ever really embraced the mysteries of life but this pilot episode reminded me, once again, that I can't escape them.
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