My kids and 80s tv

I've gotten my two kids, especially S, age 9, hooked on Voyagers! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Voyagers! was a prime time time-travel tv show from the very early 80s. Only one season, only 20 episodes, gloriously cheesy action, excellently simplified history, still smarter than plenty of other TV shows. And Jeffrey's default clothes make you think of Waldo from Where's Waldo fame. We're deep in the 2nd disc out of four. Thank you, NetFlix.

ETA: Jonathan Frakes as Charles Lindburgh in episode 10!! I thought I recognized the voice, but it took a little bit of time before I saw his face clearly. Boy, was he a tall, thin drink of water back then! yum.

Surprisingly Accessible

There is only one teacher. What is that teacher? Life itself. And of course each one of us is a manifestation of life; we couldn't be anything else. Now life happens to be both a severe and an endlessly kind teacher. It's the only authority that you need to trust. And this teacher, this authority, is everywhere. You don't have to go to some special place to find this incomparable teacher, you don't have to have some especially quiet or ideal situation: in fact, the messier it is, the better. The average office is a great place. The average home is perfect. Such places are pretty messy most of the time--we all know from firsthand experience! That is where the authority, the teacher is.

--Charlotte Joko Beck, in Everyday Zen, from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith
Tricycle's Daily Dharma for July 18, 2008