Mary Lou is arriving within the half hour and you three are going to an early showing of “The King’s Speech” at the nearby Regal off Mason-Montgomery Road then lunch after. House is cleaned and it is a bright morning with a medium blue sky. The snow is slowly melting.
You are sitting in the Cracker Barrel lot waiting on Carol and Mary Lou who are shopping after eating. . . . Home. Make the eye exam appointment first. The cat is sitting on your chest and right arm while you type.
I enjoy her warmth and purring. Very relaxing. Jadah and I have a good symbiotic relationship.
After twenty hundred hours. A long nap after shoveling snow off the decks and taking in five green plastic Adirondack lawn chairs for Winter. Homemade vegetable soup for supper, the national news, and last Monday’s “Closer”. Carol is presently watching a new “The Good Wife” she has not seen.
Earlier today we saw “The King’s Speech” with Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter and Derek Jacobi. The main focus is on King George VI of England and his Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue. The setting, the mid 1930’s and the beginning of the war with Germany. Superb acting by one and all. A wonderful, beautifully directed period piece over a part of history very important to me. My first paper in Mrs. L. Gossett’s senior British literature high school class was “The Battle of Britain”. I remember the many Edward R. Murrow’s “Hear It Now” series on records during the 1950’s. As Churchill was/is one of my great personal heroes so were all the British citizens involved in protecting England during the German attempt to destroy what you consider to be the best of your cultural heritage – the English and her language.
So many wonderful books and films focused on that period. I had to hold back the tears as King George was giving his speech at the conclusion of the film. Such a determined character, a leader with a speech impediment and a prime minister who had conquered a speech impediment of his own against one of the greatest of modern media speech deliverers, Adolf Hitler. The film deserves many awards. But to me, it is the human spirit that is delivered in the acted voices and body language of Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush that carries the day – it is the human spirit that makes us who we are. I love that aspect of our species more than any other and it is wonderfully presented in this film.
Let it linger in your head tonight, orndorff. Tomorrow is another day for writing. Post. - Amorella.
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