Yesterday afternoon, I watched segments of the Michael Jackson memorial. It was very touching and I was in tears for a lot of the performances and speeches.
I was back at step class this morning after an unplanned 4-week hiatus. I had an appointment one week, a back ailment the next week, and the gym was closed on account of a holiday last week. I usually do some weight training before the class, it was as if I was doing them for the first time this morning...what a difference a few weeks can make. Everything just felt so heavy. The 30-year-old step instructor was a lot of fun, with a great sense of humour. I felt really young for the first half of the class, then as I got tired I became my old self.
My brother-in-law's 79-year-old mother has just moved in with an 86-year-old man. Her husband had passed away several years ago, she then sold her house and moved in with a girlfriend. That worked for awhile, but didn't turn out to be a long-term solution. It turns out that she used to swim with this man at the local community centre and they have been friends for years. His wife had also passed away. So he recently offered that she could come live in his house. She said she could do that on the condition that she paid rent. He assured her that he didn't need rent, but agreed. So she now cooks meals for him and the arrangement sounds to me like a great story! I asked my brother-in-law if he's handsome and he says 'Christine, he's 86-years-old!' So I left it at that.
It's a gorgeous day today and the birds are really enjoying the ripe, red cherries in our yard. I saw one go from branch to branch, choose and pick his cherry, then fly to the ground with the cherry in his mouth, then proceed to eat it most efficiently. M told me he saw the squirrels eating the ones that the birds knocked onto the ground.
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Enigmatic and gifted: Nico transforms into Rudolph Nureyev -
Rudolf Nureyev was an idol of mine, into my early twenties when I would identify myself on my resume as 'an avid balletomane', so I hope I catch this movie on Bravo TV channel when it premieres! He was gay but in those days, it was never public knowledge.
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Great story about your BIL's mother. Yes the MJ service was happy and sad. I cried when his daughter spoke. Three beautiful little children without a parent.
By the way got an email from somoene - this is the new blog - http://ameliaspassage.blogspot.com/
Not sure about art project status though - may be not doing it anymore perhaps.
Gosh, isn't that the truth about exercise? It's so easy to fall off the wagon... and so painful to get back into a routine. I don't know why I put it off so much! I love the way I feel when I do it. It's just the thought of it.... LOL!
That is a sweet story about your B-i-L and her new roomie. And I thought your question was not out of line ;-)
I love the story of your cherry tree. It must be quite lovely there now.
What is an inch by inch ? I've enlarged it and it looks very nice but what do you do with it ?
Would love some of those cherries. We seemed to be having a good apple crop but a lot have fallen off ! Think it's a lack of moisture due to our hot summer !
I agree about MJ memorial. I melted.
I am with you with the tears for MJ
Lilly, have a nice blog break and thanks for passing on that link!
Japra, you'll be getting the best of exercise on your bike, it's neat how you do groceries on it.
Barbara, the 'inch by inch' was a meme being run by a blogger that just deleted her blog. So each week she would have a theme, and participants would create some art based on that theme on a '3inch by 3inch' piece of paper. It was quite fun.
LazyKing and SoccerMom, I guess we were all sobbing away.
I love stories of older people finding companionship and maybe love again.
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