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# Our TV-Charged Minds
- URL: https://tombeaverbooks.ghost.io/our-tv-charged-minds/
- Published: 2026-10-06T01:34:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T01:34:19.000Z
- Author: Tom Beaver
- Tags: Book: Movies And TV, #Import 2026-10-09 17:51

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Those country acres we lived on were charged with stories and characters from TV, from local history (the real Daniel Boone), and from our imaginations. It was a lucky break for us that our parents were friends and ended up moving together to the country. And we all happened to be kids with active minds. It could have been a lonesome, boring existence otherwsie, out there in the sticks.

Instead, those hills, creeks and old buildings were bursting with adventure. I have to give TV a lot of the credit. Thank goodness we got to have our childhood before the age of mere reality shows. What we got from TV shows and movies, and the occasional theatre movie, was a vision of life as it could be—exciting, significant, poignant, romantic and funny.

Life as a steady stream of opportunities to be a good guy.

Life as an almost endless time of favorite things and new things; a series of countless small episodes and occasional grand ones, most of them ending happily, all of them with something in them that could leave your mouth hanging open. *\~ Oct. 4, 2014 / To Jim Carroll*