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Tonight, after about half a bottle of a local brewer's "Scotch Ale," and while making myself a very late dinner of chicken salad, I started singing, badly, the theme from the 1955 movie, "Love is a Many Splendored Thing."
Why that suddenly popped into my head and, from there, out of my mouth, I'm not really sure. Our houses being close, and their windows open for the summer, the neighbors are likely wondering that as well.
I do remember, as a pre-teen, seeing the movie with my parents and twin sisters. It was among several movie and "dinner dates" to which we accompanied them during a time when they seemed intent on "rekindling the romance" and bringing us closer as a family.
I think I liked the movie, as much as any 11-year-old boy might. Which is to say that I liked it more as a movie than as a love story.
Still, I could be wrong about that because I've tended to like love stories, and the movies that sometimes grow out of them, throughout my adult life. Which has otherwise included two unhappy marriages, one divorce, and a death which did us part.
Anyway, I'm now thinking about reading the book on which the movie was based, Han Suyin's "A Many-Splendored Thing."
Which may, I suppose, confirm that we sometimes find consolation in reading about what we've always wanted but, in all liklihood, will never have...
LPK
Dreamwidth
8.29.2017
Why that suddenly popped into my head and, from there, out of my mouth, I'm not really sure. Our houses being close, and their windows open for the summer, the neighbors are likely wondering that as well.
I do remember, as a pre-teen, seeing the movie with my parents and twin sisters. It was among several movie and "dinner dates" to which we accompanied them during a time when they seemed intent on "rekindling the romance" and bringing us closer as a family.
I think I liked the movie, as much as any 11-year-old boy might. Which is to say that I liked it more as a movie than as a love story.
Still, I could be wrong about that because I've tended to like love stories, and the movies that sometimes grow out of them, throughout my adult life. Which has otherwise included two unhappy marriages, one divorce, and a death which did us part.
Anyway, I'm now thinking about reading the book on which the movie was based, Han Suyin's "A Many-Splendored Thing."
Which may, I suppose, confirm that we sometimes find consolation in reading about what we've always wanted but, in all liklihood, will never have...
LPK
Dreamwidth
8.29.2017
