Back on my story about, TV, what I wanted to say is because access was so limited when I was a kid, some of the things I saw on TV had enormous impact.  I just had very strong reactions to what I saw on that screen because it was contact with a larger world.

My family moved to the desert when I was 6 and at that point I became very isolated. We did go to school but we were not allowed to have anyone over and I was not allowed to go visit anyone either.

Annalisa did visit people as her circumstance was different than mine and you can see the differences in our personalities today (I imagine).  Annalisa has a mutable grand cross so she did get around. She was allowed to visit people and participate in sports and stuff where I was not. 

When Annalisa and I were Low People In High Places, visiting the bank with, Henry, there was a TV but I don’t recall seeing anything special. I was more taken with the coke we got to drink, in the glass glasses with ice in them, coasters beneath to catch the beads of water running down the sides. I’d never seen anything like that before and I was captivated for some reason.  They had air conditioning there as well and between the cold air and the cold glass… well I didn’t really care about some ol’ Dudley Do-Right on the TV, though Annalisa may have. She’d have picked what we watched, see, because we were the only people in the bank’s TV room and she was the oldest.

I was taken by the Wide World Of Sports though, which is what prompted me to write this.  When I saw this on TV, I thought I’d die:

Now THAT was thrilling. And when I saw that on TV when I was a girl in the desert, my heart soared because that right there, is life.

To be continued.