It’s the Little Things
October 24, 2008 at 11:14 am | Posted in Blogging, Movies | 7 CommentsSometimes I wonder if this blog is boring you all to death. I don’t go into what we’re making for dinner or where we go each day, but there’s not really a lot of entertainment or excitement here either. Then something happens that makes me remember that I don’t care. Because it’s the little things—the things we take for granted each day—that will someday make great memories and stories.
Yesterday, I went out to lunch with my aunt and uncle and a cousin. My aunt is eighty-six years old and my mother’s sister. After lunch, we were talking about Clare, her ballet lessons, and The Nutcracker. My cousin asked whether the ballet was going to travel to the Palace Theater in a city about about twenty miles from us. It’s going to be performed in our hometown and in Hartford this year, but not at this theater.
My cousin said that she had never been to this Palace Theater—which has been recently restored but had originally been a movie theater—and asked my aunt if she had.
“Years ago,” she said. “Before we were married. We saw that movie about the South.”
And then I realized that my aunt had seen Gone with the Wind in its original run in a 2500 seat movie palace in 1939. That’s pretty cool—even though all she had told me was that she’d gone to the movies.
So, what are you doing this weekend? We may take Clare to see High School Musical 3. I know it doesn’t sound cool or exciting right now. And it’ll never be a Gone with the Wind. But if Clare’s kids or grandkids read this blog in about seventy years, it might just be fascinating.
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Comment by bryan — October 24, 2008 #
My weekend isn’t that exciting, but we’ll make up for it next week.
That’s cool about your Aunt.
Comment by Whit — October 24, 2008 #
I have to work at a charity run tomorrow and then try and catch up after being gone for a few days for work!
Comment by Dad of Divas — October 24, 2008 #
I also have to say that my wife is jealous as Gone With The Wide is her favorite movie!
Comment by Dad of Divas — October 24, 2008 #
Trick or treating at the business district if Lukas is feeling up to it by then.
Comment by James — October 25, 2008 #
If you were boring us we wouldn’t keep reading!
I saw Gone With the Wind in the theater about 4 years ago…it played at the Palace Theatre in Lousiville. It was awesome. AWESOME. High School Musical 3 will probably be pretty cool, but if you ever get the chance to catch GWTW in the theater then definitely do it–and make Clare do it, too.
Comment by Alissa — October 25, 2008 #
Alissa is right. When I lived in Manhattan I saw quite a few classic movies back on the big screen. Giant was one great one I remember.
Comment by Darren — October 27, 2008 #