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Happy Monday!
As we prepare to ring in the new year later this week, it’s important to have the right attitude. Entering 2015 with the proper mindset is paramount to achieving all those resolutions we’re planning (well, at least 1 or 2 of them anyways). Among other characteristics, confidence and bravery are quintessential to success. Perhaps no other family demonstrates these traits quite like the Crane boys:
How will you spell “winning” in 2015?
Hopefully not, “Charlie Sheen.”
Enjoy the Final Monday of 2014!
When a Babbling Brook Has a Narrator
It’s fascinating how everybody sleeps, yet each person seems to do it in their own unique way. You may be asking, “what do you mean? You just lay still and close your eyes.”
How we all wish it were that simple.
After countless nights in hotels, dorm rooms and many other similar situations, it’s truly mind boggling to witness and/or hear the variety of ways certain people sleep. Whether it’s keeping the television on, certain lights on, playing particular sounds of nature, spreading one’s body out diagonally or hogging all the blankets, sleeping lends itself to all sorts of normal and utterly crazy behavior.
Exhibit A: Frasier lets Niles crash in his room for a night.
We’ve all been here.
TV’s Circle of Trust
Last night, I watched (not for the first time) the series finale of “Frasier,” which was followed by the series premiere of “Frasier” on the Hallmark Channel (11:00 p.m.-midnight). Seeing the popular and witty sitcom come full circle in this fashion was a surreal experience, partly because most of the same sets were used for both episodes. Without question, witnessing the journey of all the characters was worth every second of every show.
A sight to see for sure.
This sequence of events begs the questions of the who, what, when, where, why and how of our own lives? Perhaps the most fascinating quality about Dr. Frasier Crane was his insistence to plan, plan and plan his life’s events with his overly analytical mind. And yet, his life was so much more fulfilling and enjoyable (and funny!) when the unexpected occurred without warning.
In the series premiere, Frasier took a chance at disturbing his new bachelor lifestyle in Seattle to reacquaint himself with Martin, his polar opposite father, by asking him to move in with him. Frasier was clearly a man of habits and preferences (“the chair”), so this provided quite the challenge for the famed psychiatrist. Still, the audience could see that Frasier’s life was going to benefit greatly from the unknown.
The series finale (spoiler alert from 2004) saw Frasier engage in a classic psychological dilemma of certainty versus mystery. In the end, Frasier chose mystery. While standing in his apartment for the last time with Niles and Daphne, Martin and Ronee and Roz, it’s safe to say he realized that his genius mind was not the primary source of wisdom that led him and everyone else into that room together after eleven years.
From the series premiere to the series finale, the famed radio psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane was talking and indeed listening…just not from the place he may have expected.
Nine years after signing off the air and it’s still worth a listen or two.
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