![]() ![]() So my prayers for you are prayers for me, as well. You stayed on your course and sailed forth to do and be what I lost sight of for a while. Now voyager sail forth to seek and find movie#The title of the movie was taken from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass – But for me, what was that? I’m still moving through the question. Somehow the message got through to me – personal transformation, being the best I could be, was NOT just about getting a guy and living happily ever after. And in the end, they don’t get married, but unite in a higher goal of bringing out the best in someone else – his daughter. It has stayed with me forever – frumpy Charlotte Vale transformed into the beautiful, engaging creature who could inspire Claude Rains to put two cigarettes in his mouth, light them both and hand one to her. It was sometime during high school, maybe even in college, on one of those many nights spent alone, that I saw the 1943 film Now, Voyager, starring Bette Davis. My room was my world, and I didn’t come out that often. I know I wrote some poetry from time to time, hung out exclusively with a smaller and smaller group of friends, and went to great lengths to avoid most social contact. ![]() The Beatles came along and every spare moment I had was concentrated on Paul McCartney. They went away sometime during my sophomore year. She wasn’t so special.īut Susanna had a life! She went places, earned her own living, and got other people to do things – even if it was just playing shuffle board. She also had red hair, which was supposed to make her special. She was a stay-at-home manipulator, who always had some “splaining to do” to Ricky. Now voyager sail forth to seek and find series#The inspiration for this was Gale Storm’s role in a weekly television series called “Oh Susanna!” I did NOT love Lucy. From 1956 – 1960, third to sixth grade for me, I told anyone and everyone who asked – and many who didn’t - that I wanted to be a social director on a cruise ship. She understood me when I said – as I so often did over the next few years – that when I grew up, I wanted to be a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. Together we were the only two Christian Scientists at Smiley Wilson Junior High in Lubbock, Texas. This may have been not so much a function of my engaging personality and distinctive talent, but the fact that my teacher and I were in constant contact: homeroom, newspaper, English class and Spanish class. Allen was also the faculty adviser for the school paper, and I was her special pet, so my “beat,” and responsibilities quickly broadened. I was in seventh grade when I joined the school newspaper. ![]()
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