Got up early, emailed the kids that I was still okay, hot bath to ease the hip, balanced breakfast --prunes, egg salad sandwich, coke (need the caffeine.) Back in bed to read the sad excuse for a morning newspaper, made the mistake of surfing TV for something to watch while getting dressed.
And came in on the start of Shimon Peres' funeral in Israel, in a huge tent that held, the NYTimes report immediately online tells me, 4,000. I haven't watched C-SPAN lately, kind of forgot its "you are there" fascination -- no commentators, no breaks, no commercials, just the whole of whatever's going on, however long it lasts.
So here's the moment I wanted to call "Hey Doris, look at this!" about -- I watched Netanyahu make his way in along the front row, shaking hands with the mourning family, then with the assembled world leaders (including Mohamad Abbas) arrive in front of his seat next to Obama, and -- was I the only one who saw it that way?-- deliberately ignore a discomfited Obama by talking for a full minute with the other World Leader before him.After which, I have to confess, I stayed in bed and watched the whole funeral. Waited for the TV director to zoom in on Obama's speech so we wouldn't keep getting distracted by that secret service man who was constantly moving around, visible every time the wind stopped flipping those flags (see him with his back turned?)
And discovered three hours had passed.
So then I made the mistake of surfing TV again for something to watch while getting dressed and found the tear-jerking end of The Prisoner of Zenda, possibly the best movie ever made. So I got back in bed. Ronald Coleman's voice -- Doug Fairbanks' so-charming villain -- and the dialog! I came in on Princess Flavia saying "If love were all, I could follow you in rags to the end of the world." But love isn't all, so she's going to follow her duty and marry the King of Ruritania instead.
Time for lunch.
Ah yes, but you did get dressed despite all the distractions, yes? My son can and often does spend the entire day in his pajamas :-)
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ReplyDeleteI remember, once when Dov first brought Connie here, they were going somewhere and I said "Wait, I'll get dressed and come with you" and I heard Connie whisper to Dov "We'll be late" -- to which Dov replied "You don't know my mother." So I kept track on the clock, and I was back outside in two minutes -- granted I had my shoes in my hand. Now that I need an appliance to put on my socks, and can no longer tie my right shoe or flip over a velcro flap, it takes about 20 minutes to get dressed -- and of course it hurts -- so I'm with your son!
ReplyDeleteNice to think you read the blog, Nan.