Happy Tuesday Friends,
I enjoy watching Christmas movies. There's something about "Elf" or "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" playing in the background that gets things kicked off just right.
Did you see the article in The Washington Post yesterday? Apparently Zuzu from It's a Wonderful Life didn't have so great of a life after all. She says life was great until the age of 15 for Karolyn Grimes. Her mother died at age 12, then right after he dad died in a car crash. She was 15 with no family. She was sent to live with an aunt and uncle who she said were "religious nutso's who probably didn't believe in laughing". Tragedy continued into her adult life. She was married young and soon divorced and her ex-husband died in a hunting accident. Her second husband died of cancer and her son committed suicide. She even says, "My life has never been wonderful". Yet, she says that her tough life makes the movie's message that much more resonant.
"It's not a Christmas movie, not a movie about Jesus or Bethlehem or anything religious like that", she says, "It's about how we have to face life with a lot of uncertainty, and even though nobody hears it, most of us ask God to show us the way when things get really hard." She goes go to say that "Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help."
I found this fascinating because so often times we try to erase differences by finding positive or neutral things to unify us but I never though we are all one because we've all experienced sorrow.
I always found "It's a Wonderful Life" a little cheesy but also highly stylized at the same time so I can't help but watch it. The line that sticks in my mind is "every time a bell rings and angels gets their wings". I think I'm going to watch it this season with fresh eyes and just a little more aware of what's happening.
Happy Day.
Love, Love, Love
I enjoy watching Christmas movies. There's something about "Elf" or "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" playing in the background that gets things kicked off just right.
Did you see the article in The Washington Post yesterday? Apparently Zuzu from It's a Wonderful Life didn't have so great of a life after all. She says life was great until the age of 15 for Karolyn Grimes. Her mother died at age 12, then right after he dad died in a car crash. She was 15 with no family. She was sent to live with an aunt and uncle who she said were "religious nutso's who probably didn't believe in laughing". Tragedy continued into her adult life. She was married young and soon divorced and her ex-husband died in a hunting accident. Her second husband died of cancer and her son committed suicide. She even says, "My life has never been wonderful". Yet, she says that her tough life makes the movie's message that much more resonant.
"It's not a Christmas movie, not a movie about Jesus or Bethlehem or anything religious like that", she says, "It's about how we have to face life with a lot of uncertainty, and even though nobody hears it, most of us ask God to show us the way when things get really hard." She goes go to say that "Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help."
I found this fascinating because so often times we try to erase differences by finding positive or neutral things to unify us but I never though we are all one because we've all experienced sorrow.
I always found "It's a Wonderful Life" a little cheesy but also highly stylized at the same time so I can't help but watch it. The line that sticks in my mind is "every time a bell rings and angels gets their wings". I think I'm going to watch it this season with fresh eyes and just a little more aware of what's happening.
Happy Day.
Love, Love, Love
Just a minute... just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry away to college, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why... here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You... you said... what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!
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