September 30, 2006

• My Unofficial Tag from RedHairedCelt

  I couldn’t think of anything noteworthy to mention about my week or weekend for that matter, so if you are reading this, consider yourself Tagged!  Although I might take the time to officially tag a few people anyway.  This was fun, it will let you get to know me a bit, and hopefully, if you take the time, it will help me get to know you a bit too.

  Ok…here it is…

  My top ten simple pleasures

   

  1. Singing
  2. Writing something and getting that feeling somewhere in the middle that it just might be really, really good.
  3. A satisfying, tasty meal complete with dessert.
  4. A beautiful or thought provoking work of art.
  5. Beautiful or thought provoking music.
  6. Meditating or soul journeying.
  7. A certain Divinyls songs comes to mind…
  8. Reading a good book.
  9. Taking myself out to a movie…its fun with other people, but for some reason, I get more pleasure out of it alone.
  10. When it’s by choice, just being alone with my thoughts.

   

  My Top Five Tear Jerker Moments in Books and Movies

   

  Books

   

  1. River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke:  When Johnnie May’s aunt talks about the pain of loss when her husband dies, its one of the most beautiful, spiritual, and realistic passages about how one who is left behind feels, and eventually moves on.
  2. Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons:  When Shepard sees his highschool sweetheart, Sarah, for the first time after they had broken up and she is married to someone else and they hug one another in greeting, there is this killer moment when the character says how that “space between neck and shoulder was carved for her face.” 
  3. A Separate Peace by John Knowles:  When Gene confesses to Finny that for a split second he hated him and shook the branch Finny stood on as he was preparing to dive into the water, and that’s why Finny is crippled.  The betrayal was staggering.  It’s the only John Knowles book I like.
  4. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller:  I know, a strange book to have a tear-jerker moment with, but there is this part near the end where Henry is in Paris and talks about how much he misses his wife.  He goes to this fountain where they walked together when she was with him there, and touches the place on the fountain where her foot rested as she got a pebble out of her shoe.  He breaks down and cries and rests his face against that place.  You can completely feel his longing.
  5. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence:  Gerald and Rupert are the best of friends and each develops a relationship with a woman:  Ursula (Rupert) and Gundrun (Gerald.)  Gerald and Rupert have feelings for each other as well, and when Rupert makes an entreaty to him to explore this love, he is violently spurned, leaving both men feeling heart broken and betrayed.  It’s a moving and painful moment.

   

  Movies

  1. What Dreams May Come:  When Robin Williams goes to hell to save his wife after she commits suicide, and then she saves him right back when he starts to give into madness.  Then they reunite with their family and decide to take another go at life.  The whole last fifteen minutes, I’m pretty much a mess.
  2. Armageddon:  Ok, cheesy movie, but when Bruce Willis sends his daughters fiancé back to her and he makes this speech to her via a video connection about how he’s not going to make it back to her and it’s “the only promise I won’t be able to keep to you” I just bawled.
  3. The Horse Whisperer:  When the daughter rides her horse for the first time after they both got hit by a vehicle, Kleenex city.
  4. Frida:  When Frida Kahlo miscarried her baby in Detroit and begins to create a painting about that harrowing experience.  She is my favorite painter anyway and has been a muse and icon for me.  She suffered so much in her life, and still gave her life to art and for the betterment of Mexico.
  5. Rudy:  When he finally gets to go out on the field, and they carry him off on their shoulders…WAAAAH!!!

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