A Sense of Wonder

My favorite TV show is Dark Shadows. Not the 1990s remake,but the original supernatural soap opera I used to run home from school everyafternoon to watch. School let out at 3p.m. and only a large field separatedthe schoolyard gate from my house across the street. If I was able to avoid detention and outrunthe after-school bullies, I made it home in time to watch. There was novideotape back then; if you missed it, it was gone forever.
We tried hard to preserve the ephemeral experience and...