Mister Rogers’s Garden of Your Mind

Do you know what this is?

Let me share with you the lyrics of the remixed version of the Garden of Your Mind.

Hey Neighbor, welcome again to this neighborhood. I’d like to show you something. Do you know what this is? Well, Maybe if I push this button. This is a cassette player with a little cassette in here. And there’s nothing written on it so We’ll have to play it to see what’s on it

Did you ever imagine things? Are they scary things? Did you ever imagine things Things you’d like to have? Did you ever see a cat’s eyes in the dark And wonder what they are? Did you ever pretend about things like that before?

Did you ever grow anything in the Garden of your Mind? You can grow ideas In the Garden of your mind

It’s good to be curious about many things You can think about things and make-believe All you have to do is think And they’ll grow

Imagine every person that you see Is someone different From every other person in the world Some can do things Some can do others Did you ever think about the many things you’ve learned to do?

Did ever grow anything in the Garden of your Mind? You can grow ideas In the Garden of your mind

It’s good to be curious about many things You can think about things and make believe All you have to do is think And they’ll grow

Did you feel like going like that? (hand snap) Let’s give the fish some food Mr McFeely, I didn’t order any whistles (Music break) That’s what they call these slide things Did you feel like going like that? (hand snap) There are so many things to learn about in this world And so many people who can help us learn

Did ever grow anything in the Garden of your mind? You can grow ideas In the Garden of your mind

It’s good to be curious about many things You can think about things and make believe All you have to do is think

You can think about things and make believe All you have to do is think

And they’ll grow

Yesterday, I wrote 8 stories, it is one of those days, as all writers experience a burst of creativity, and now I know where they all came from, the garden of my mind.

1. Stray Kids (스트레이 키즈) Bang Chan Got A Big Surprise from Ryan Reynolds
2. Live Caption Chrome — An Accessibility Feature That Helps People with Disabling Hearing Loss
3. Google AI — Find My Cartier Watch with Diamonds in under 3 Seconds
4. Ledell Lee, a Black Man Was Executed Because Arkansas Didn’t Want the Lethal Injection to Expire
5. Productivity Advice on Achieving Work-Life Balance Is All Crap
6. How to Get Into the Top Medium Publications and Make Money with the Medium Partner Program
7. My One Cent Articles and I Am No Longer Ashamed Of Them
8. When a Medium Publication Editor Tells You to Write a 1,000-Word Article, Say No!

Every article was written one after the other, edited and submitted to publications, and some were self-published.

Some are from ideas and from what I read yesterday. But some are from what I know, from my own garden, the garden of my mind.

Today, I am reading about Fred Rogers, who will always be Mister Rogers to us. In this interview, he says:

Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather in silence.

And this had become more real today than it was when he first said this a long time ago.

I myself am guilty about consuming as much information as I can, online and offline. But I still have time to reflect on my life, the surrounding people, and the world as a whole.

I still wonder, and when I do, the gift of creativity comes naturally.

I sometimes think that I would run out of stories to tell when I have nothing else to say or stop writing.

But even when I feel that I no longer come from fear, but in amazement or as Mister Rogers calls it. Wonder.

But that day hasn’t come, so I will continue to visit my garden of the mind, see what “fruits” I can pick, eat and nourish my body and soul.

To wander inside my mind and plant the seeds of discoveries.

Now I know I have to be more conscious of what I plant in my garden of the mind. As my days are few, I would like to gift my readers something to wonder about and not simply give them a piece of information.

Thank you, Mister Rogers, for letting me today see in silence the beauty and depth of my own garden of the mind.

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