May 4, 2010
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"Because I knew you..."
Happy Birthday Mom!!!
The Daily News
1 So...Lynne Redgrave walks into a bar...
2 Amazing actress.
3 So it goes once again, so it goes...
4 Farewell, Georgy Girl.
5 So sad, too young, as is anyone who passes away.
6 Moving on, Part the First: On a good note, today is my Mom's birthday.
7 My sister Gayle is taking my Dad, and his two remaining sisters, Aunt Tag and Aunt Lorraine out for lunch. Amazing, and I wish I didn't have to work today, but such is life.
8 They all three had one more brother.
9 His name was George Francis Harrington.
10 His nickname was, "Bud".
11 Trip.
12 But really? My uncle Bud was missing in action in some war or other, and went down in a plane.
13 Years later, my Aunt Tag, and her daughter, my cousin Nancy, went to Ireland to investigate the fate of my beautiful Uncle Bud.
14 He was taken down in the Irish Sea, and they found documents corroborating that.
15 We all held a service a few years ago, and out of utmost respect I attended.
16 It was solemn, and beautiful. My Uncle Bud was an amazingly wonderful man, and it came out from family members who knew. I never knew him.
17 I remember distinctly standing at the celebration of his life, which took place at Golden Gate Cemetery in San Bruno, and listening to all their words.
18 I also remember looking up at the gravestone and seeing my own name.
19 Was it an eerie moment?
20 No. It was an eternal moment. We have those. There was an American flag blowing behind the monument, some trees, clouds, and blue sky. Typical San Bruno weather.
21 AnywayZ, the remaining three siblings are going out today to celebrate the life of my Mom, and for that I salute them.
22 My Mom was the best Mom ever. I miss her beyond tears, and beyond life. She is responsible for teaching me everything about life, (with a LOT of interruptions by my Dad, btw!) and always to respect everybody, and to live life, and to love life to the fullest.
23 Even in college I remember coming home on weekends and Mom would always be up, watching the Tonight Show, but really, just waiting for me to come home so we could share our days, our thoughts, our philosophies.
24 We used to chill and talk endlessly into the night about everything and nothing.
25 I'm not worthy of talking about her because I don't have the writing skills nor the poetry to describe how much I still love her.
26 Maybe just listen to the song "For Good" from Wicked, and it will say anything I could put here ten times over.
27 As I write this a tear is finding a way down my cheek. I have no intention of stopping it. These things happen, and are natural.
28 Moving on, Part the Second: Yesterday I went into my rolling backpack to check on some papers I just assigned and needed to grade.
29 I had been REALLY proud of how well I've been watching my diet and eating right.
30 I stopped having 7-11 hot dogs for lunch, for example, and switched them out for bananas and oranges.
31 Well...yesterday, just before I departed for home, I opened my rolling back pack only to find a rather pleasant odor, like something exotic and from the islands.
32 Turns out that I had put a banana into the rolling back pack last THURSDAY, and it was now swirling around my rolling back pack, contaminating everything within reach, INCLUDING my students' papers!
33 I dug in there with my fingers, trying to rescue whatever was in there, which to ME coulda been a Gila Monster.
34 I was darned close.
35 Turns out it was this soggy shrunken head that was clearly impersonating a banana.
36 Dude.
37 It was NASTY.
38 AnywayZ...
39 I picked that stuff up with my open hand, and allowed it to sog through my wastepaper basket.
40 Time flies like an arrow.
41 Fruit flies like a banana.
42 Mom would be proud.
43 I love you all, everything.
44 Live life.
45 Love life.
46 Peace.~H~
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Here are the lyrics to For Good:
"For Good" from Wicked
[ELPHABA:]
I'm limited.
Just look at me.
I'm limited.
And just look at you.
You can do all I never could.
Glinda...
So now it's up to you,
For both of us.
Now it's up to you.
[GLINDA:]
I've heard it said,
That people come into our lives,
For a reason.
Bringing something we must learn.
And we are lead to those,
Who help us most to grow if we let them.
And we help them in return.
Well I don't know if I believe that's true.
But I know I'm who I am today,
Because I knew you.
Like a comet pulled from orbit,
As it passes a sun.
Like a stream that meets a boulder,
Halfway through the wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better,
But because I knew you,
I have been changed for good.
[ELPHABA:]
It well maybe,
That we will never meet again,
In this lifetime.
So let me say before we part,
So much of me,
Is made of what I learned from you.
You'll be with me,
Like a handprint on my heart.
And now whatever way our stories end,
I know you'll have rewritten mine,
By being my friend.
Like a ship blown from it's mooring,
By a wind off the sea.
Like a sea dropped by a sky bird,
In a distant wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better,
But because I knew you...
[GLINDA:]
Because I knew you...
[BOTH:]
I have been changed for good.
[ELPHABA:]
And just to clear the air,
I ask forgiveness,
For the things I've done,
You blamed me for.
[GLINDA:]
But then,
I guess,
We know there's blame to share.
[BOTH:]
And none of it seems to matter,
Anymore.
Like a comet pulled from orbit
(Like a ship blown from it's mooring,)
As it passes a sun.
(By a wind off the sea.)
Like a stream that meets a boulder,
(Like a sea dropped by bird,)
Halfway through the wood.
(In the wood.)
Who can say if I've been changed for the better.
I do believe I have been changed for the better.
[GLINDA:]
And because I knew you...
[ELPHABA:]
Because I knew you...
[BOTH:]
Because I knew you,
I have been changed...
For good.
Happy Birthday, Mommy.
Happy Birthday Nonie.
We still do.
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