Hello Thankful Hop friends. First thanks goes to Brian for hosting the weekly Hop. GREAT time to voice the things you’re thankful for. I have to say that I’m FINALLY thankful that we are having some positive signs that Spring is TRYING to make it here. Buds on trees – yards full of beautiful bulbs popping (not ours though since Mom didn’t plant any), trees blooming (our Bradford Pear Trees NEVER let us down). There’s also a whole lot of nice delicious green grass out there which Mom hopes to mow in the next day or two.
There are always things that we need to be thankful for and Brians’ Hop is our chance to do that.
Thursday is also the day we dedicate to my Angel brother Sammy’s Poetry Challenge. His post follows this one! See you all next Thursday.
Hugs, Teddy
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Greetings From The Rainbow Bridge!
Happy Thursday friends. It’s our day for poetry. I hope you wrote a poem for the photo I gave you last Thursday. Just let us know in comments so we can read it on your blog OR you can write it in my comments if you’d rather. Either way – I hope you join in our Thursday fun.
Below is the photo we all worked on this week – AND my poem for the photo:
“Modern Miracle”
Poem by Angel Sammy Kimmell ©March 29, 2023
In the living room after dinner the crowd would form
Mom, Dad and the kids together – the new “norm”
So different from gathering around the radio before
This modern miracle of television was a HUGE score!
No more imagining pictures to go with radio sound
We could see it on the screen as we all sat around
I wonder which was better – to IMAGINE or to SEE
I think Radio and TV both set our imaginations free………..
Think about how many other “inventions” have been introduced since television – even back then nobody imagined something like cell phones and internet and oh so many other things that are part of our lives now. Of course here at the Rainbow Bridge we don’t have all that stuff – who really “needs” it? Not us!
Here’s your photo for NEXT week’s poetry fun – hope you like it and it inspires you!
I already have an idea about this one……….how about you? Hope you share it next week when we get together for more POETRY!
I am the Angel Poet in the green beret…..and I hope you join me for POETIC FUN each week!
LOVE and LIGHT (and poetry!), Angel Sammy
TWO Spoiled Cats 
Your spring is WAY ahead of ours! We even saw snow Saturday and yesterday! At least it didn’t stick around.
I am drawing a blank…that wold be a good title for next week, LOL!
Here my offering for this week:
Family Time
Come let us gather around,
Its time to turn up the sound,
For our favorite show.
It might be an adventure,
Or some singing high or low.
Is great to sit and watch,
Hoping it will have a good flow,
To keep our rapt attention,
Till its over and time to go
To our beds to dream,
Of all we saw…Whoa!
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Oh I think you did a wonderful job! That’s the feeling I was thinking as I looked at this photo – I think it had to be a bit of a miracle at the time!
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Interested to see the responses to the Rothko painting. One of our favourite painters so hope people aren’t too cruel 😀
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I’m also a fan – the hope is that people have fun imagining what people are thinking – Also thought it was pretty interesting the woman’s outfit somewhat mirrors the painting.
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nevertheless I still love the radio dramas… sadly they are hard to find now….
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Happily on Sunday nights there’s an “OLD TME RADIO” program here – it’s hours and hours long and we never can stay awake for the whole thing but LOVE listening to all the old radio programs.
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You had to plan ahead when you wanted to watch those old tvs – they took minutes to warm up and for the picture to appear! 😀
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They sure did……I remember that!
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Everything has advanced so much in the last century. I remember my brother used to get the Eagle comic and it had Dan Dare the spaceman. It was complete fantasy back in the 50s.
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I don’t remember Dan Dare…..!
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Mark Rothko’s abstract impressionistic painting of a man-eating otter using a toothpick after running along a bus full of nuns going to the beach. Sure to be worth at least 100 million dollars at auction…
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Gosh…..your comment reminds me that imagination truly is a wonderful thing……………… 🙂 🙂
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Television was a miracle and a curse.
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Still is………. 🙂
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None of our imaginations could come up with a poem for the TV one. TV? Radio with a tv screen? We were confused. Next time will be different, BOL! Good poem you got out of it, Teddy, we’da never thoughta that! Happy Thursday!! Oh and we’re thankful to have a BIG TV to watch when we want to! XOX Xena, Lucy, Chia and Riley
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Those super old TVs had big speakers on the cabinets – it does look like a radio/TV but I’m pretty sure that’s just the TV speaker. We like the TV of today rather than the TV of old for sure!
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That photo for today sure brought back memories for those of us old enough to remember the ‘tiny’ black and white tv’s. I’m sure it’s hard for younger folks to imagine! Next week photo should be a fun one to write poetry about. Thanks for hosting! Here’s the link to my post today: https://thesedaysofmine.com/2023/03/30/poetic-thursday-simpler-times/
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Thanks for having poetic fun with us every week – loved your poem – there were LOTS of us who remembered those days!
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That was a great poem. Very true about setting our imaginations free. Thanks for the great prompts. XO
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This was a FUN one!!
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And back in those days the tv was fun, entertaining, family tv with no violence and HBO words. Thankfully now we have choices that are still like that.
My poem is here
http://downhomeinnc.blogspot.com
Hugs Cecilia
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Loved your poem AND yes you’re right – things on television were a whole lot DIFFERENT back in those days. Some would say we’ve come a long way but we’re not so sure that “long way” was the “right way” !!
Hugs, Teddy and Mom Pam
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Enjoyed your poem, Angel Sammy! TV was magical back in the early 50s. I can remember sitting in front of the TV after school. Oh the memories!
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I know – same here with the memories……..wonderful to think about isn’t it. Seems like about 100 years ago…..
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Mama, papa, can those people come OUT
of that magical box, play, and jump and shout?
Do the have to stay in their for all of thier life
and trapped in a TV box? What terrible strife!
But we’ve heard there are cartoons of Mickey and Bugs
and we’d just as soon leave them there for our virtual hugs.
(This is possibly the worst poem mama has ever written, but love the photo.)
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NO it’s not the worst poem – it’s CUTE – and my Mom remembers that it was a really big deal to see cartoons on that tiny little screen. She also remembers watching Howdy Doody Show……LOL
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My mom, too! It’s Howdy Doodie time!
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YESSSSSSS!
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TYPOS: Do THEY have to stay in THERE….
And virtual was not a word then, haha.
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Thursday’s are the day we realize just how lucky we are to be a member of this wonderful community (though we’re trying to make time everyday acknowledging gratitude). And today we can say we’re especially grateful for all the terrific poets out there. Well done, once again sweet Sammy.
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Sammy no doubt appreciates that you enjoyed his poem AND his poetry challenge photo for this week! Next week’s photo will be interesting!!
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Mom remembers when the TV was tiny and the case was HUGE! We are not familiar with the artist of next week’s photo.
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Modern artist – I had a “phase” of loving modern art when I was taking painting lessons many years ago. Now I really am more into realism. Those first TVs really did have itsy bitsy screens.
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My peep was next door to the first couple on TV to be shown sharing a bed.
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Who was the first couple? I think Lucy and Dezi had separate beds…..can’t think who the first ones might have been!
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Terrific poem. Mom’s family got a TV when she was five. They had such tiny screens. She would get up at 6 a.m. on Saturdays to watch cartoons. She would lie on the floor on her stomach as close as she could get, so she could keep the sound down and not wake her parents. She did write a Poem: https://thecatonmyhead.com/miss-kitty-vs-the-magic-gadget/ XOCK, angel Lily Olivia, angel Mauricio, Misty May, angel Giulietta, angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer, Kizmet, Audrey & Raleigh
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We loved your poem for the photo this week. Lots of fun memories! It was such a big deal getting that first TV!!!
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Not such a big fan of TV and try to stay away from news as much as possible. So the Ts don’t hear too much of TV noise at all.
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I never watch news and always watch old movies or nature programs. TV has some GOOD points but I can see why some people get “hooked” on it!
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We were just getting ready to enjoy some spring weather too, when it turned into a 30 degree windy day today. Blerg.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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I know……Mother Nature seems to enjoy TEASING US!
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Great poem. I don’t remember that kind of TV but; I think color came out when I was really little. My dad was a TV sales and repair man(his own business) so we were lucky and had a colored TV. A big one. Back then you could get trips somehow. Not sure if it’s how many TV’s my dad sold or what. And sometimes I got to go on service calls with my dad and some of the older ladies would give me something homemade like a sock monkey.
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Oh what fun – getting to go with your Dad on his housecalls and having people give you little things to play with – that is SWEET!
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Terrific thankfuls Teddy, we’re sure enjoying blooming season too. That was a fun poem, so many inventions that have changed so many lives. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
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I’m glad spring is springing where you are.
The poem is so true, there’s a place for listening to stories and using your imagination to see pictures in your head, and watching it. Both have good aspects.
Thanks for hosting, my poem is over here.
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What a wonderful memory and a wonderful poem! Many of us remember those first TVs and just look at how far they’ve come. We don’t have a HUGE screen TV but it’s sure a lot bigger than the first one I remember as a little girl coming into our house. It was magical – and while I still enjoy listening to the radio when we could put a picture to the voices seemed to be a miracle at the time. Thanks for your fabulous poetry every week!
Hugs, Pam (and Teddy too)
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Great poem about the imagination machine
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Teddy, you’re so lucky to see signs of spring. It’s nice here for a few days, but still snow on the ground and more in the forecast. Great poem Angel Sammy!
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Our weather is still iffy and weird but at least Mother Nature is trying her best in spite of the weather to bring us some Spring!
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Time has really changed in the TV industry. Great poem.
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That early television cost the equivalent of $10,000 in current purchasing power. I remember the b&w images scrolling bottom to top, the snowy reception, the promise of 13 channels, but only getting two and then three once public television reached this outpost on the high plains, the miracle of a television antenna my friend had that could be remotely positioned inside to improve reception of the worst of the two channels, and the day cable filled in those 13 channels with Denver (i.e. “big town”) channels that were as crystal clear as those old televisions could be. I was hooked!
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We all were hooked – and many of us still are! LOL
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For sure or why would we pay outrageous amounts of money for programming when we used to be able to get more than enough programming for free on those 13 channel sets!
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Yep and actually we only get what channels are free on our TV – we do not have cable and don’t want it. FREE is the best……..
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Here, the only free channel worth watching is Nebraska Public Television.
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Public television is great…..we enjoy the local PBS station a LOT
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We have excellent public television and radio in Nebraska, too. I’m pleased to support the NPR and NPTV for the bright relief they bring to broadcasting.
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Toetally KEWL poe-em ‘angel’ Sammy!!! Radio iss wunderfull inn itss’ own way an Tee V iss kewl inn itss’ way! 😉
**purrss** BellaDharma an ((hugss)) BellaSita Mum
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Great thankfuls, Spring has sprung here too, Teddy, but the weather is really to awful to Enjoy it ☂ That is a fantastic poem, Angel Sammy. You always find the right words for the pictures😺Double Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend to all of you🐾😽💞 https://angelswhisper2011.com/2023/04/01/quality-time-in-the-rhyme/
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Oh how we love love love your poem!! We also love the photos of your beautiful garden and Angel’s Place. So peaceful and sweet……we ALL miss her.
Love and Pawkisses, Teddy
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