Blog 2999 – 01. 15. 2024

Candle In The Wind

Over the course of this almost nine year daily blog I have several times paid tribute to Marilyn Monroe, movie star and Playboy Magazine’s first centerfold. Sir Elton John’s song Candle In The Wind is his tribute to her. For my birthday last November, a dear friend who knows me quite well sent me a one thousand piece jigsaw puzzle with eight images of the lovely MM. My room was already a sort of shrine to the memory of Marilyn, but after painstakingly completing the puzzle with my wife’s help, I sealed the pieces together with clear glue, framed it and hung it near the dream catcher that hangs over my bed.

Marilyn Monroe caught the imagination and dreams of both men and women, boys and girls around the world. Over fifty years later images of her still do. The cliche is true of her “Men wanted to be with her and women wanted to be her.” My wife is jealous of every woman I ever loved except Marilyn for from a girl she too wanted to be her.

Marilyn died when I was just an eleven year old boy. She was my dream girl. Still is. Because she died at such an early age (36), she is forever young in our memory.

Good-bye, Norma Jean!

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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Candle In The Wind