Yesterday and Manana
I'm glad yesterday is over and we can do something other than watch airplanes crash into the WTC. It was beyond terrible ten years ago. On a related note the first pick 3 series at Belmont Park in New York was 911. You just sort of notice these things, like the digital time when you are driving in the morning. But there doesn't seem to be a way to escape these reminders big and small.
In an effort to escape the 24/7 nature of the 9/11 remembrances I watched some old movies on TCM. They had Pride of the Yankees and Casablanca on at various times. "Pride" was a really great baseball movie and human story. The courage and attitude to say you are the luckiest guy on the face of the earth while facing a terrible disease was historic at the time and is no doubt repeated on a daily basis as people face down mortality. Gary Cooper made a career of these kind of roles and I thank for his judgement.
Bogart and Bergman in "Casablanca" did the same in placing WWII in some kind of context.
Time well spent.
In an effort to escape the 24/7 nature of the 9/11 remembrances I watched some old movies on TCM. They had Pride of the Yankees and Casablanca on at various times. "Pride" was a really great baseball movie and human story. The courage and attitude to say you are the luckiest guy on the face of the earth while facing a terrible disease was historic at the time and is no doubt repeated on a daily basis as people face down mortality. Gary Cooper made a career of these kind of roles and I thank for his judgement.
Bogart and Bergman in "Casablanca" did the same in placing WWII in some kind of context.
Time well spent.
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