Blog 843 -12.14.2017

Would You “Do It Again”?

I am always on the look out with my eyes, my ears, my heart, and my mind open for new ideas to share and even for different angles to share some favorite old ideas. In the hit movie from last year, La La Land, at an audition the young lady that the story centers around shares a memory in song of a favorite aunt, in particular an adventure that her aunt shared living in Paris as a young woman. Her aunt told her that one winter she was standing by the Seine river and felt a whimsical urge to just jump in and so she did. The song starts”

“She lept without looking

And tumbled into the Seine.

The water was freezing.

She spent a month sneezing.

But said she would do it again.

Here’s to the ones who dream.

Foolish as they may seem.

Here’s to the hearts that ache.

Here’s to the mess we make.”

Often our lives do seem like a mess and are but I wonder if when all is said and done if we would not choose to do it all again. One of my many favorite movies that I have mentioned before and probably will again is, What Dreams May Come, with Robin Williams. It is the tragic love story, so many of the most beautiful ones are, of a couple who meet in a sail boat accident in Switzerland just out of college. I won’t tell you the whole story, and I could for I have most of the lines memorized, just say that when they are finally reunited In his heaven populated by her paintings, for in life she was an artist, that he says to her, “Would you like to go back and try it again?” She says, “Get it right you mean?” He, “Yeah, find each other sooner and love each other longer.” The last scene of the movie is of a little girl meeting a slightly older boy at a lakeside and sinking his sailboat with hers and giggling with the most mesmerizing smile at him. They did it again. Would you do it again?

Another verse from the inspiring aunt song says,

“She told me

A bit of madness is key

To bring out new colors to see

Who knows where it will lead us

And that’s why they need us.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White