I loved it upon first viewing the spring of 1979 at age thirteen!
And now due to streaming I can view it in my own home with subtitles!
I especially enjoyed the performances of John Savage and Treat Williams; Savage also starred in "The Deer Hunter", another Vietnam War era movie released in the late 1970s.
And as my sister said after viewing the later "National Lampoon's Vacation".....why does Chevy Chase's character bother running after Christie Brinkley when he is married to Beverly Dangelo!
Here is where it all started:
Flowers in the Attic - Wikipedia
Big thrills during the summer of 1980--forty-five years ago!
During the mid twenty tens I discovered that Lifetime Network had produced a series of movies through the fourth book "Seeds of Yesterday".
The action of "Seeds" occurred during the summer of 1997; I read it during the summer of 1986, and I vividly recall thinking "I will be in my early thirties then."
I am now in my late fifties!
Time flies....
Then a few years later I saw "Garden of Shadows" in a bookstore and leafed through it enough to reveal a few more "secrets...."
Now I have just learned via my Roku that Lifetime produced a whole series based on "Garden" called:
Flowers in the Attic: The Origin.
And there are other books in the series:
Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth - Wikipedia
Christopher's Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger - Wikipedia
Christopher's Diary: Secret Brother - Wikipedia
And even a follow up to the Audrina book:
Last night I experienced horrible nightmares.
Is this part of becoming older?
I certainly hope not.
Getting into fall now....we aren't yet there but we are getting there!
....here I am!
I don't know what I expected at sixty.
Just not this...
On the eve of bliss.....
Sixty sixty guess who is nearly sixty!
My brother's wife died at the end of May.
That is a blunt reminder that we are all immortal.
When I was a child I frequently confused "immoral" and "immortal."
Go figure.
I also confused "brought" and "bought."
Maybe this was a mental block.
I possess a certain amount of survivor guilt.
Why am I here when so many others have died????
I am an atheist; I leaned towards the agnostic side for several years then my 2010 cancer diagnosis at age forty-four tipped the balance for me.
As a result, following my 2018 stroke there was nobody to receive my anger.
I am firm in my belief that there are no deities!
The above is not anything to upset over.
It merely is REALITY!
I don't always relish hiding my atheism.
I have accepted that it is one of the requirement toward harmonious relationships with other homo sapiens.
Tbere are days when I fervently wish I were not a member of the said species.
However unlike to protagonist of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" I never change overnight.....
Is the entire month one gorgeous holiday?
Does every maiden wish that her lad would be a cad?
The Big Six Oh!
https://www.amazon.com/Sex-After-Sixty-Guide-Women/dp/0816165076
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/interactive/a45893760/sex-after-60/
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/975663437/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed
"March 11, 2020. The Day EVERYTHING Changed!" 😮😢🙂
I want to be more understanding.
I want to attempt to look at issues through others' eyes prior to passing judgment.
I want to be as agreeable and amiable as possible, even when dealing with someone I dislike.
I want to be industrious and plan the best possible use of resources.
....Energy energy energy...
Busy at work but it is good to keep busy!
Quote from John Powers: "In Chicagoland March is the FINAL FART of winter..." certainly true for 2025 but then it is true EVERY YEAR!
The end of winter...hopefully!
Ah February! Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day, Presidents Day, and once ever four years an extra day!
I will put away all my winter decorations tomorrow (Christmas specific stuff went into the closet a week into January).
And we will get ready for spring, which here in Chicagoland probably won't materialize until well into May.
At least that is what I told myself on February 1!
I will have to check if the ground hog saw his or her shadow...
Last night there was snow but it will all melt today since the forecasted high is in the forties.
...has had me rethinking the 1970s decade.
Upon taking office in 1977 Carter promptly pardoned the draft dodgers.
Even earlier the US people had soured on Watergate and wanted new people.
The Energy Crisis, The Meat Shortage....it was all there!
And as for me that era is the beginning of my general fatigue; at age eleven in 1977!
I still remember watching the news story re Amy Carter's first day of public school in Washington DC; both my parents promptly exclaimed: "Look at that poor girl! She is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED."
Neither of them seemed to notice my own school attendance terror.
Or if they did they simply ignored it.
Now in less than two week another inaugural will occur; OH HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN!
