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What I Have Learned from Reruns of “Little House on the Prairie”
When I was a kid, we had a black and white TV set that had two channels. I think they were channel 13 and 6, if I remember right, and I used to love watching Little House on the Prairie on Sundays.
As soon as the intro started, I was glued to the show from beginning to end, and wished badly, that I was Laura Ingalls or her sister, Mary. I read all of the Little House Books and still have copies on my shelf years and years later.
Recently, while I was on some time off for a recovery period, I was searching channels, bored out of my mind and came across the show on one of our weird, obscure channels. I have fallen in love with it all over again. Not because I wish I was Laura or Mary, but because of it’s values and lessons.
The simplicity of the lifestyle that the characters lived is absolutely breathtaking. Fishing in creeks with rolled up dough balls from a day of bread baking, pie baking contests, old country fairs and living off a homestead with laying hens and horsedrawn buggies. What an amazing time in the world.
