Friday, September 9, 2005
The world is two blocks big
The internet, accessible microcosm of the world that it is, is an amazing place. Two days ago, visiting Reflections in D Minor, I decided to look at some of her sidebar links. One link's name, DevraDoWrite, made me chuckle (remember Dudley Do-Right?) so I went there. Serendipitously, it turns out. The first thing I noticed was the striking page design but, not wanting to judge a blog by its cover, of course, I began reading. The first post whose title piqued my interest referred to The Magnificient Obsession and talked about how much she liked the songs and feeling of The Five Pennies, the Danny Kaye/Louis Armstrong movie about jazz trumpeter Red Nichols. I was struck partly because I also love the movie's triumph-through-caring message and its music, and partly because my aunt, Barbara Bel Geddes, who plays Red's wife, Bobbie, died about a month ago. I wrote DDW to say that I loved both the site and the post and, by the way, did she know that BBG had died recently. A flurry of email and reading each other's blogs ensued as we grew ever more surprised at the many parallels between our lives, from living in the same part of NYC as children, to having fathers who were well-known in the jazz world, one a musician and one a writer, and even to our mothers' professional similarities. With her permission, please read her post from yesterday, at the end of which she drew three superb conclusions.
1) trust your instincts and listen to those inner voices;I must say that I'm still a bit breathless from the whole thing and I'm sad my parents aren't alive to enjoy this discovery with me but it is a blessed discovery.
2) people cross your path for a reason — be open to the experience; and
3) talk to strangers as they may turn out to be someone you know.
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