Saturday, May 9, 2009
Anniversary of impassioned people
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Billy Joel, John Ashcroft and Dante . . . all celebrating birthdays today. I suppose we don't know if they celebrate such pedestrian things as birthdays where Dante is, but I kind of hope they do since he's 744-years-old. He and John Brown could toast each other and their intense passion for convincing others of things. John's a baby, though, only barely 200 years old (209 to be exact). And they could invite James Barrie, creator of Nana and Captain Hook and all the little Darlings, to join them even though he's a mere 160 today. I rather like it that Barbara Wodehouse who conveyed her passions about good dogs shares the day with them all. And the passionate Daniel Berrigan who maybe was not as charming as the others but surely believed as wholeheartedly and with all the force of his convictions (no pun intended, well maybe it was). And the wonderful British actors Joan Sims and Albert Finney both of whom convey passion magnificently. Oh, and Ralph Boston who won a bazillion Olympic medals in the long jump; watching him jump kind of ruined it for me for anyone else because of his unique combination of grace and intensity thus embodying the hallmark of today's birthday people. Quite a day.
Labels: anniversaries, people of note
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