I liked this North Texas Catholic feature on a journalist’s friendship with Fred Rogers.
“I trusted him with my innermost feelings and experiences,” Madigan says of their early correspondence. “I think my vulnerability was something he greatly appreciated. He wanted to know the ‘essential invisibles’ of other people. That was the central theme of his life.”
The term “essential invisibles” is part of a favorite quotation Fred Rogers kept on his office wall. Culled from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince it reads, “That which is most essential is invisible to the eye.”
Catholic Sensibility 