SPRING 2022 !

Spring Love in the time of Covid!

I live alone and have actually enjoyed catching up on binge-watching EVERYTHING!
As we are into our third year of Covid, I am giving back to the things that the films gave me, it seems and finding myself quoting thoughts words, and deeds from film.

We certainly are challenged this spring! Most of us have a day or two when we wail. But this latest era has been a real challenge!

I got some body repairs done, and finally able to function normally and catch up my earnings, but then covid got me sent back to home and zero live shows for my art for a while, and now it’s WAR.

With all my redcross work, and pathetic bereavements of my own, covid still overwhelmed me with the idea that thanks to covid, so awfully awfully many were as shattered as were our children and I when grief took my husband long ago. NO ONE should need to deal with sudden grief loss of an indispensable other.

Even death cannot win over the good if we make some effort, and WE WON, BUT IT WAS NOT CHEAP to enjoy a normal life and sunny days again.

I am older and all I can do is share grief recovery bits here and there and cry only enough to help keep my eyes clear. In fact, there’s another movie quote for it:
In the film, “Show Boat” Awwww..what a sorrowful moment! ,notes the boat captain - Agnes Moorehead his wife, replies in her righteous crustiness. “EYEWASH!” That’s all sorrow is good for - eyewash!

And now this conflict between Ukraine and Russia, like one more punishment on us for things we never did or dreamed to do.
Worse - it means one more time of sudden sorrow and grief-shock for a huge number of good people ONE MORE TIME….!!!
In the 60s movie, “Charade”, when pushed to the wall one time too many, I remembered Audrey Hepburn’s most-justified wail at Cary Grant:

“Give me ONE GOOD REASON…” to endure further stress and possible injury! He replies lovingly and sorrowfully, “I can’t think of one!”

NO - war with Russia on the table again?!!!
Back at the time when the film “Charade” was done, Nikita Khrushchev roared to the Western governments, at a UN meeting, TELEVISED:
“We will bury you!” Banging his shoe on the desk for emphasis!

All we knew of such extremism, was that it spawned a lot of neat spy movies!

And yet, every day, we knew that we were in danger of war coming to our doors in America.

Here we are again!
My whole family are good and brave people, and active in compassionate response in every way.

Nevertheless, we shriveled and slid under the desks in our chairs in tears over the idea of engaging on the side of our beloved Ukraine people.

We dare not abandon them, and yet:
We send our military planes to help them and then what? … and Khrushev’s boast so long ago, today provided a blast from the past at me.

What outcomes might our act of righteous and compassionate response win for us in reprisal?
And so then we think there is value as we engage in this internal conflict with this moment!
We wail full of love for all that is good and the duty to make this love an action word, and risk our lives, since we must.
And yet, we may not need to worry about living to regret it, since we won’t live to see that day.

“Give me one good reason” to keep faith with the faithless mess that brought us here to such threatening days!
And yet, I am filled with joyful memories of the Miracle of Spring!

I am full of light as I remember my parents so good and friends full of the joyful creation of our part of a fine life -
Especially at this time of year, and Spring shopping and Spring cleaning and Spring music music music!
All these daily tasks for work and personal life must be done, no matter what, and we believe after all and allow ourselves to be encouraged and we encourage others.

When each of us does best show of a fine day to make and share, we WIN for all of us for always.

And still I am weepy too much just now, if I stay at this part of doing my part today.

I can’t leave you laughing today, but I can share this song I found some years ago. Click on the link - music and lyrics may help you as they do me.

Many people do not know it but the famous “Affair to Remember” movie with Cary Grant and Deborah Carr, revived by “Sleepless in Seattle’s” ladies was a remake.

Leo McCarey it’s wizard, made the film and called it “Love Affair”, with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne but foolishly released it in 1939, when competition for the prizes included “Gone With the Wind” and “Wizard of Oz”….so gem or not, no one remembered but Mr. McCarey and so the title of remake and it WON. There is a really great “never give up when you know it’s right” lesson in it.

But all I want to do here today is share the song that helps me on a sad day and it’s from the 1939 film, sung by Irene Dunne, as she waits for the upcoming reunion with her beloved keeping faith with their goal and promise to love and make a fine life together..a

It’s perfect for trying times and for fixing the blues:

View and listen to
“Sing, my Heart!” Sung by Irene Dunne in Leo McCarrey’s “Love Affair”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvxfKYjJQiY And here are the lyrics:

Sing My Heart

• as sung by Irene Dunne in “Love Affair”
  
  Go on and sing my heart
  You know it's spring my heart
  So why not show it?
  Pretend you're glad my heart
  Although you're sad my heart
  He mustn't know it

Remember, love is not an easy game
No two hearts ever beat quite the same

Go on and dance my heart
This is romance my heart
So keep pretending!
Do not despair, my heart
We still may share, my heart
That happy ending!

If it's to be, we soon shall see
And if it's not to be,
No power on earth can make it so

Pretend it's spring my heart
Go on and sing my heart
For if you sing, he'll never know

interlude


Go on and dance my heart
This is romance my heart
So keep pretending!
Do not despair, my heart
We still may share, my heart
That happy ending!

If it's to be, we soon shall see
And if it's not to be,
No power on earth can make it so

Pretend it's spring my heart
Go on and sing my heart
- Until we KNOWWwwwww!!

And now back to work for me. Clocks foreword one hour on Sunday for us here. Benjamin Franklin’s basket of inventions include Daylight. Savings Time.

Elle 3-11-22 Friday PM