I was digging deep again, as I do every year or so, into my box of keepsakes and relics that I really don't know why I kept them but did. Stuff I wrote as a kid (some of that, I must say, rather disturbing), old letters of the real life mailed sort, newspaper clippings of miscellany, that have strangely yellowed and gotten brittle already and that shit just ain't right since it seems not so long ago ... whatever, I'm getting old. From the Kansas City Kansan , newspaper that we got delivered daily, Friday, July 25, 1975, I had cut out and kept this one particular article headlined "Youngster completes first novel." I was always writing as a kid, so I remember very well snipping this one item, on account of the twelve-years-old youngster was my same age, and I very much wanted my own novel published. Of course I hadn't written it yet, but I figured this proved I could do it, too, kept it for an affirmation thingy. Over the years I've remembered saving that s...
I know what you mean. Soon as I saw the first couple of seconds, I stopped it. I can't even watch it again. Think I've seen it twice. Though it's a "happy ending" it is soooooooo emotional that it hurts...it that makes sense...I think it breaks my heart and I can't get passed thinking about when they had to send him away...poor baby. It is beautiful though...maybe so beautiful it hurts. (?)
ReplyDeleteOh, I love this video! It's so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe happy ending makes the whole thing worth watching, though. Except that I have no Kleenex. Thank God for shirtsleeves.
ReplyDeleteI must have gotten that whole over-emotional thing from you. I've watched this like, three times in row now. It's incredible, and I'm practically bawling. :)
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with inheriting the emotional gene from me, sug. :-) Like father like daughter. Fortunately you seem to have inherited the good stuff, glad so much of the other didn't take.
ReplyDeleteHi Megan! you're dad is cool. This video, people say, oh it's not real---please, research with dolphins, monkeys, apes and lions, all have proven the animals DO remember their human friends. It is we humans who kill for fun. We are more cruely animalist than even snakes. Steve Irwin gave his life to proving that.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Diane, me being the cynic that I am, I did do some checking into this being real before I posted it. And it is real. I found so many pictures of stuff of these guys from back then with the lion in their home, and caught up with recent interviews with the two guys themselves, to know that's it's real. And you're right, there is enough other proof of animals remembering their human family that yeah, this is real. I saw the guys on the Today show talking the experience, it was fascinating. Your point about it's us humans who kill for fun, well said. Probably the cruelest of creatures, I agree. And thanks for calling me cool, by the way. :-)
ReplyDeleteMegan,
ReplyDeleteI should pay more attention. (Last name) Then I saw the "like father like daughter" but since I call Doug my pretend son...it just went over my head.
Hi Megan, real daughter...that would mean I'm your pretend Grandma. :)
My daughter is an awesome woman, I just wanted to mention that. Of course, I'm biased, I know, but true even if she wasn't mine.
ReplyDeleteHi Diane! Yes, you're right, my dad is cool. *cough* I just wish that I saw him more often. *cough* He loves you, by the way. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Lumina/Grandma. That "like father like daughter" thing is definitely true between me and my dad. We have a lot in common, and I'm often told by my family when I've just made a "Doug face". Haha, so true. Anyway, thank you for the greeting.
And Dad, thanks for saying I'm awesome. You're awesome. I must have gotten some of that from you too.
Well..."Truth be told..."
ReplyDeleteIt runs in the family, yes...means you both got it from me. *hee hee*
Thanks, Lumina for the awesomeness that is me and Megan. :-)
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Yes, from my sad. From Dad's you got the...Well, again, Awesome. :)
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