If Happy Little Bluebirds Can Do It. . . .
Mamacita says:
This late afternoon, as my son (handsome, single, nearly seven feet tall, possessor of a sweet sensitive heart and a wicked wild sense of humor, and almost graduated!) (resumes accepted for my consideration) and I were driving home, the torrential rains stopped for a few minutes, the sun shone brightly, and we saw the largest, most vivid, gorgeous, breathtaking rainbow I’d ever seen in my life. It spanned the entire sky, and honestly? I had never seen such bright, clear colors in the sky before. It shook my entire being with delight. Surely, with a rainbow that large and that perfect, there would be a pot of gold, symbolically speaking, for everyone lucky enough to have seen it. I could almost see the leprechauns sliding down the bands of color: Newton’s sevenfold of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and indigo, the colors of Judy Bolton’s bridesmaids’ dresses in The Rainbow Riddle. It was one of Iris’ best.
Just seeing that rainbow was a pot of gold for the essence of me. I needed that rainbow today. I needed it, and there it was.
Perhaps that is because a rainbow is, after all, a Promise?
At the very least, it was magically delicious.
Dee Hoty from "Follies"
Mamacita says: For some perverse reason, I have always loved this song from Follies. Alexis Smith used to be my favorite singer of this song, but since I discovered Dee Hoty, I’ve changed my mind. What a belter! Such class!
Things Nice People Already Know
Mamacita says:
1. If you bring a lot of little children to a restaurant, and all of them are behaving beautifully except for one, and that one is in a frenzy of determination to rattle the boat and keeps pinching and bothering the other children until they’re in tears, the stinker should be removed BEFORE he ruins the evening for everyone, and convinced in whatever way it takes, to NEVER BEHAVE LIKE THAT AGAIN. Then the victims should be rewarded with something extraordinarily awesome which they get to eat, play with, whatever, in the face of the stinker, who gets nothing except a parental “look” that reminds him that he’s lucky to get to eat at all after acting like a jerk in public. The parents should then stop for ice cream on the way home, and everybody gets one except the brat. Amen.
2. If you stink, please take the stairs. Smokers, you all stink. Please stay out of the elevator. The universe thanks you in advance. My eyes are still watering after HOURS.
3. If you weigh a good 400 pounds, and you are enthusiastically licking an ice cream cone in each hand, expect a few amazed stares.
4. If your class hasn’t met in two weeks because of the blizzards, and you had a paper due that first missed day, there really isn’t any excuse for not having it today. There never is, but especially after two weeks off.
5. You’ve got to have a dream; if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?
I’m listening to South Pacific, and I’m so tired I could just break down and sob right here. But if I give up, how I gonna have a dream come true?
