Missed your posts. And you’re back with a bang. But your daddy tribute was 💋👌🏼 Meet Joe Black is one of his all time favorites and you nailed the choice of scene to share. Plus it’s after the Tony’s and you sure called it with regards to Stereophonics 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you my lovely daughter. After last night’s awards, your devotion and passion for “Stereophonics” has been confirmed by its peers. You’re good at spotting a winner. Maybe that’s because it takes one to know one. Speaking of winners, Tom Brady is right. There’s no deep secret to success. It’s about consistently giving what you do, your all, which sadly, is what most of us don’t do. As has been said, 99% of success is just showing up.
Years ago, I met a professional author and got paid to do research for her. In fact, we wrote a screenplay together with me doing a large percentage of the work. She thought I possibly had a gift and encouraged me to write. Unfortunately, I didn’t listen. I got caught up in the grind of survival and chose to do what I knew best and that was real estate. It offered me a living and a way to provide for my family and to be close to home, but most of all, it allowed me to know my children as well as I do. Truth told, what it didn’t give me was passion, but it did give me the opportunity to change people’s lives by helping them find a home they loved or an investment property that offered them financial freedom. As my father told me, the luckiest people are those whose vocation is their avocation. Those are the people who can’t wait to go to work each day.
Sorry for the digression. The best advice this author gave was that writing doesn’t come easy. You have to be, as Tom Brady said, consistent. Sit down at your typewriter (before computers and Apple) everyday in the same place and same time and write. In other words, create a habit. Some days nothing will come at all, and other days may be a bonanza. Just do it! I don’t think Nike had even created that line yet. I’m happy to see you following your passion to write. You’re much better at it than me. You have a natural gift. Don’t stop.
I appreciate your culture acknowledgement. I have always loved music, plays and movies. Your mom and I tried our best to share that with you. When mom was pregnant with you, we made it a point to listen to all types of music ranging from classic to country, rock and Sinatra. Sorry about opera. It just wasn’t in our wheelhouse. As you know, we enrolled you in theater school and began taking you to Broadway at an early age. When you consider you are writing a blog entitled “The Culture Diet”, it worked. Bravo! I can’t imagine living life without culture. In this new age digital world we’re living in, the best of music, movies and art is available to everyone. If we can’t take any material possessions with us when we pass, how important are they except for our pleasure why we’re on earth? We can; however, take memories, knowledge and emotions with us, which must mean they are of great importance. I suppose I will miss a good cheeseburger or a piece of Prince Street Pepperoni Pizza, but I’m hoping to see and hear a heavenly choir and feel the love of all my friends and family when I get there.
Thank you for the excerpt from “Meet Joe Black”, which as you know, is one of my favorite movies. Some critics have called it sappy, but I think it’s one of Brad Pitt’s best performances and Anthony Hopkins never fails. Brilliantly written, it offers, not only a close look at a wonderful relationship between a father and daughter, but begs the question of whether or not any of us are prepared to meet death as well as Anthony Hopkins character was. My favorite line is when Anthony Hopkins asks Death “if he should be afraid”, Death answers, “Not a man like you.” That answer pretty much sums up the meaning of this life. If we have lived the good life, fought the good fight and are prepared to meet any consequence without fear, we have succeeded. I wish all that for you.
Finally, I’m not giving up hope for, not only the heavenly choir, family and friends, but also all my dogs and even a good cheeseburger without fear of high cholesterol. I’m just not in a hurry to get there soon. I still have a lot to look forward to watching your life develop. Notice, I didn’t even push for grandkids, just your happiness. Love, Dad.
It's so much fun to see you back here! I absolutely love your vulnerability and agree that it can seem daunting to 'pick up the broken' glass again but you did it! I think sometimes, we put pressure on ourselves to come up with the most amazing witty thing ever ever ever, and we end up taking the fun out of it. So I'm happy you just DID it, and with such a fun post! 😀 Btw, I feel the same as you about Tom Brady - don't really care about him but WOW that is a GOOD quote! I also TOTALLY wanna see Stereophonic!
Missed your posts. And you’re back with a bang. But your daddy tribute was 💋👌🏼 Meet Joe Black is one of his all time favorites and you nailed the choice of scene to share. Plus it’s after the Tony’s and you sure called it with regards to Stereophonics 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You absolutely must see Stereophonic before it closes. A must see!
Thank you my lovely daughter. After last night’s awards, your devotion and passion for “Stereophonics” has been confirmed by its peers. You’re good at spotting a winner. Maybe that’s because it takes one to know one. Speaking of winners, Tom Brady is right. There’s no deep secret to success. It’s about consistently giving what you do, your all, which sadly, is what most of us don’t do. As has been said, 99% of success is just showing up.
Years ago, I met a professional author and got paid to do research for her. In fact, we wrote a screenplay together with me doing a large percentage of the work. She thought I possibly had a gift and encouraged me to write. Unfortunately, I didn’t listen. I got caught up in the grind of survival and chose to do what I knew best and that was real estate. It offered me a living and a way to provide for my family and to be close to home, but most of all, it allowed me to know my children as well as I do. Truth told, what it didn’t give me was passion, but it did give me the opportunity to change people’s lives by helping them find a home they loved or an investment property that offered them financial freedom. As my father told me, the luckiest people are those whose vocation is their avocation. Those are the people who can’t wait to go to work each day.
Sorry for the digression. The best advice this author gave was that writing doesn’t come easy. You have to be, as Tom Brady said, consistent. Sit down at your typewriter (before computers and Apple) everyday in the same place and same time and write. In other words, create a habit. Some days nothing will come at all, and other days may be a bonanza. Just do it! I don’t think Nike had even created that line yet. I’m happy to see you following your passion to write. You’re much better at it than me. You have a natural gift. Don’t stop.
I appreciate your culture acknowledgement. I have always loved music, plays and movies. Your mom and I tried our best to share that with you. When mom was pregnant with you, we made it a point to listen to all types of music ranging from classic to country, rock and Sinatra. Sorry about opera. It just wasn’t in our wheelhouse. As you know, we enrolled you in theater school and began taking you to Broadway at an early age. When you consider you are writing a blog entitled “The Culture Diet”, it worked. Bravo! I can’t imagine living life without culture. In this new age digital world we’re living in, the best of music, movies and art is available to everyone. If we can’t take any material possessions with us when we pass, how important are they except for our pleasure why we’re on earth? We can; however, take memories, knowledge and emotions with us, which must mean they are of great importance. I suppose I will miss a good cheeseburger or a piece of Prince Street Pepperoni Pizza, but I’m hoping to see and hear a heavenly choir and feel the love of all my friends and family when I get there.
Thank you for the excerpt from “Meet Joe Black”, which as you know, is one of my favorite movies. Some critics have called it sappy, but I think it’s one of Brad Pitt’s best performances and Anthony Hopkins never fails. Brilliantly written, it offers, not only a close look at a wonderful relationship between a father and daughter, but begs the question of whether or not any of us are prepared to meet death as well as Anthony Hopkins character was. My favorite line is when Anthony Hopkins asks Death “if he should be afraid”, Death answers, “Not a man like you.” That answer pretty much sums up the meaning of this life. If we have lived the good life, fought the good fight and are prepared to meet any consequence without fear, we have succeeded. I wish all that for you.
Finally, I’m not giving up hope for, not only the heavenly choir, family and friends, but also all my dogs and even a good cheeseburger without fear of high cholesterol. I’m just not in a hurry to get there soon. I still have a lot to look forward to watching your life develop. Notice, I didn’t even push for grandkids, just your happiness. Love, Dad.
It's so much fun to see you back here! I absolutely love your vulnerability and agree that it can seem daunting to 'pick up the broken' glass again but you did it! I think sometimes, we put pressure on ourselves to come up with the most amazing witty thing ever ever ever, and we end up taking the fun out of it. So I'm happy you just DID it, and with such a fun post! 😀 Btw, I feel the same as you about Tom Brady - don't really care about him but WOW that is a GOOD quote! I also TOTALLY wanna see Stereophonic!