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Randy Travis turns 55 today. In the radio biz that I work in, that's known as turning double-nickels!
The late Audrey Hepburn would have turned 85. She's best known for melancholy roles like Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden (brilliantly remade with Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear, but I digress) Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert; My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison; and Breakfast at Tiffany's with The A-Team's Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, the equally late, George Peppard.
Paul Xavier Gleason star of The Breakfast Club and Die Hard, just two of his many roles would have turned 75 (along with Batman, since they were both born in 1939!) His most famous line from The Breakfast Club ~
- and don't you forget it! The Lego Movie's Will Arnett, *NSYNC's Lance Bass and Pia Zadora are all adding another year today too.
Tomorrow, my sister and brother-in-law, Paula and John will be married for FORTY years.
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That is an achievement in this day and age. My folks married later in life and they were married 35 years when my dad passed away from prostate cancer in 2000. Mother's Day, 2000. That's coming up. On May 10th, my mom turns 81.
On Tuesday, Cathy and I will celebrate 24 years together. There's a Kiefer Sutherland, 24 joke in there somewhere, I'm sure.
Oh, yeah, anyway, we're just sitting around the apartment enjoying a quiet, lazy Sunday.
What's on my mind today, is I want you to imagine that you are five or six years old. The first people in the world you develop a relationship based on trust break that trust. For whatever reason - can't or don't - the people that made the conscious decision to bring you into the world have changed their minds. You are not theirs anymore. You are not any one's anymore. You're really no one. The people that define you, do not anymore.
On this lazy Sunday afternoon, I am very thankful that each one of my three children chose me. They chose me and Cathy. They each said to us and to a judge, I want them to be my parents. I want him to be my dad.
Cathy and I have talked from time to time about The Butterfly Effect. Basically, it is the idea that if a person could travel back in time and make a change - any change at all; like say, killing a butterfly, or in George Bailey's case in It's A Wonderful Life, erasing, or eliminating your own existence - profound changes take place. If Cathy and I had done any thing differently over the last twenty-four years, it is possible that we would not be blessed with Bella, Ethan or Justin.
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I think how each one of the children were introduced to us. Justin introducing us to Ethan; and, in turn, Ethan introducing us to Bella.
I look back over the last twenty-four years. There are some things I would have wanted to go differently. But not so differently that we wouldn't be where we are right now.
That's for sure.
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The Fourth will be with you, always.
Hope you guys are all doing well. Thinking about you and wondering how everyone is doing. Three years ago today we arrived in Kiev. What memories that brings to mind. Give our best to Igor.
ReplyDeleteDdave, hope you are enjoying the time with Masha. Cathy, I assume you are back home with the boys. I am sure that was quite the homecoming. :)
Take care.
Karla