After yet another night troubled by dreams of COVID-19, I
will later today take a crack at forecasting the large changes I foresee as possible
outcomes of the virus, but first, I should like to share with you a lovely
moment from last evening. It may lift
your spirits. A word of background
explanation is necessary.
I have a stuffed bear, who sleeps with me and even on one
occasion accompanied me to New York for my Columbia class. He is a pretty standard Winnie the Pooh bear,
complete with little red coat. His name
is Howard. Howard is named after a
famous movie star, Jonah’s bear in the almost forty year old romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks
and Meg Ryan. The movie is, among other
things, a cinematic homage to the
great old Cary Grant Deborah Kerr tearjerker An Affair to Remember. It
ends, appropriately, on the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building,
where Jonah has gone in hopes of finding Meg Ryan. After he leaves, Ryan finds Jonah’s forgotten
backpack with his bear in it, and in the romantic conclusion to the movie, she
returns it and asks Jonah the bear’s name.
“This is Howard,” he says, and the three go off together to what the
Director, Nora Ephron, makes clear will be a happily ever after.
Yesterday evening, having watched as much news commentary as
I could stomach, I lay in bed surfing the web, looking for anything to distract
me. Somewhere in the clutch of movie
channels provided by my Spectrum subscription, I stumbled on the last 40
minutes of Sleepless in Seattle. I watched it happily with Howard perched on
my chest. Howard was overjoyed, or at
least as overjoyed as a stuffed bear can be.
4 comments:
Spirits lifted thank you!
Also just suggested before I'd love to hear your predictions. I'm going to go ahead a pretend you read it lol!
Please keep staying safe.
Nat
"Sleepless in Seattle" is only 27 years old.
I too have a Winnie the Pooh "stuffie" (as the kids these days say), which I've slept with these past however many years it's been since my friend's dog Daisy destroyed the bunny Vanilla, which my little sister had given me, from her collection, when I "moved away to college" (which was really a mere 20min drive away). In the end, I had that bunny longer than any stuffed animal I'd had as a child, though my current Pooh is from my childhood. He'd spent probably two decades in storage prior to Vanilla's destruction.
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