Question of the Day | 12/10/2008 11:00 pm
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“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart” and I think that Victor Hugo said it first, so any day — any day at all — in the spring makes me feel that all is right with the world. However, if it is any Thursday in the spring, then I would have been to the beauty shop before setting out into the world — and we all know how good we feel when we know we look our best - well, don’t we?
So I pick Thursdays when the world seems young again, spring is in the air, and so am I !!!!
Joan
I have always enjoyed Thursdays because both of my children were born on Thursdays.
I have to say that one of my favorite days is Christmas Eve. People just randomly drop by and we exchange fun and love and some nibbles and champagne or whatever. The kids are excited, I might be cooking something really yummy, everyone just kind of relaxes and we laugh and talk. It is warm and sweet. In the past they were more hectic, but now I refuse to get in the car and drive all over the world, so neighbors drop in.
Frannie —
Guess what? I was born on Holy Thursday - and it was you who reminded me of something not said to me in years. As for your Christmas Eve tradition, I remember that every Dec. 24th, my parents really threw a gorgeous but relaxed party . . and while I was supposed to be in bed waiting for Santa, they were having cocktails (I can still see the glasses) and it was then that they all helped decorate our Christmas tree. I don’t believe I have heard anyone else that did that — but from the sound of good times, I know it was the pinnacle of the year!!!! Love yours — and the kids will ALWAYS remember. I guarantee.
Joan
What a great day to be born. I think I was born on a Tuesday. I love the story about your parent’s Christmas tree decorating party. When I was a small child my mother used to decorate the tree on Christmas Eve after we went to bed and we would wake in the morning and it was as if magic had happened over night. When the family grew and there we several little ones running around she changed the tradition to us decorating the tree. My sister-in-law’s mother and father decorated the tree on Christmas Eve when the children were asleep. I think it is a beautiful tradition. I love my tree up early to sit and enjoy it. It calms me and is so peaceful.
Frannie Em — what a coincidence as most people put their trees up early… but the big people had so much fun and I still remember it as good times. I wonder if you are like me — those days of long ago were not to be equalled - much as I have always tried. Perhaps, we just became too materialistic and competitive on gifts and the joy slid out the back door in some significant ways. I don’t know —- but it was something … .
Joan, I remember a story on WOW about a little girl talking to Cary Grant. Was that little girl you?
I’ve always loved your comments but that was the best one of all since he is one of my all time favorite actors.
Dab-a-Do …
My gosh! Have I just been missing you … or should I tell you I have been missing you. I am collaborating on a non-fiction book - not my first - and I quickly find I can write something, but never get back to read the threads — just some of those months I guess. And yes, it was me that went to David Niven’s funeral in Switzerland, went to Mexico for the evening with Cornell Wilde, was on the Art Linkletter show,
had Henry Fonda walk a block with me after a play, and - I am sorry - it was Clark Gable that I was introduced to as a little girl at the
Country Club in LA. He still had his golf garb on. My wonderful mother saw to it that I met anyone she thought fit
— which I thought as a child that everyone did. I will always remember the first - Irving Berlin - when I was a tot.
But wish I could say your favorite Cary Grant - and I don’t blame you - suave and wonderful — but I missed him.
I could write columns on this on what happened with this star or that — oh, how about Elizabeth Taylor with
Richard Burton — I think I have a photo, Kate Hepburn too, and me and Shirley MacLaine … but they are all caught in with some any other photos that it would take years to unearth them. And remember — I spent time with Ingrid Bergman and her Isabella also in London.
Alec Guinness there too.
Gee, it has been a good life — a GREAT life actually. My mother said to “leave no stone unturned” and I have sure tried to please her memory.
Oh my, what a life. Well, if it wasn’t Mr. Grant then my next favorite all time idol is Mr. Gable. I remember him in a movie that didn’t make a big splash but was memorable to a young girl..Band of Angels with Yvonne De Carlo. She was so beautiful and, if I remember correctly some of the scenes were in New Orleans. I thought he was so handsome. Must be why I have always enjoyed the company of good looking white haired older men.
Dame Taylor with Sir (?) Richard must have been a blast and Ingrid Bergman, was she as beautiful in person as on the screen? Sometimes a person’s face is great for photography or movies but somehow does not translate to real life. I imagine she was as beautiful as we saw her on screen.
Good luck with the book. Can you elaborate? Would love to know more about it.
Your mom was a special lady and her motto was certainly something to live by.
Dab-a,
You have made me think of things I haven’t in a long time. My mother believed - and it showed - that you could do anything in life you wanted to do — it didn’t take money, it took creativity and a belief in yourself. So she made me believe that I had all the abilities to “go for it” - and she actually said that Clark Gable would LOVE to meet me. Well, he pretended well. As for Ingrid Bergman, I saw her when she was in advanced breast cancer stages — his last stage role. One the stage, you would never know it wasn’t the wonderful Ingrid. But when we went to her dressing room, she looked SO bad that I couldn’t ask - as I sometimes did - if I could take her photo. It would have been beyond the pale. But she treated me like her friend, introducing me to Isabella Rosellina, and chatting - and then we walked down the alley in the back of the London theater to the street together. She died soon after. So sad.
This book has a publisher, and is written with John Wasik - who you can look up on Amazon books. His latest on Samuel Insull was beyond outstanding - and what a writer. Title? may change with the times of the last few months - timing got off with the economy as it is on the greening of America. Who would have guessed. The one before with Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s dad - a bigger name in MN than she is (thus she kept his name when she ran) - and I named it “Pieces of My Heart” as it was on nature and the spiritual aspects of being out in nature. Every U.S. Senator received a gift of it last Christmas - part was about Amy in her younger days.
I find that health is the unknown in life — the thing that can bring you down - but not as quickly, if you do research and find the best doctors in the U.S. for your particular cancer or ailment. Saved my own life as well as others by going to the top - and it didn’t cost any more than your local doctor who you later found out knew nothing. But as for the rest, I aim for the sky and so far so good. Most things, no money. I wanted to go up in all the Goodyear blimps in the ’80s when there were 5 — and all it took was one letter, no money, and I made my dream work as they people were taken with me I think - and vice versa. That sort of thing — if you don’t try, you don’t get. So it is all in thinking positively, dreaming and planning, and there you are. Well, enough.
December 02nd. That happens to be my birthday & I enjoy being again the center of attention & loving wishes. I like to be reminded that I’m loved, who doesn’t?????
Sunday are the best; Quite, all business’s stop, no mail, no calls, just quite.
sometime quite is good for the body, mind, soul!
If I lived nearby, Jeannot, I’d take you out. We could do whatever you’d like and afterwards we could go to lunch, talk long about big things and little things, maybe drink some wine, maybe flirt with the waiter, or we could take a long walk in the woods or along the beach or maybe just sit on a park bench and feed the pigeons. As Billy Crystal always said, “Can you dig it? I knew that you could.”

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