Everyone Has a Jenny

I got the chance to see Forrest Gump with my youngest son this weekend. It's such a solid movie, and there was lots to discuss with him, but what I found interesting were his views on Jenny. 

Are all sorts of meme's and discussion posts and controversies about Jenny and how badly she treats Forest. Personally, I think Jenny's story is there to help us appreciate Forest's journey. You have the ynig and yang, the good and the bad. The viewer gets to see how good parenting effects kids when they grow and how bad parenting affects people. You get to see good choices vs bad choices and how they effect people around you and others in the world. You get to see how tendencies to do good or bad stay with people throughout their lives. Without Jenny's miserable story, Forrest's story is less impactful.

Losing Smell

 The other day I posted about how I contracted Covid. I tested positive and that night I realized I couldn't smell the coffee that I was making. It took less than 12 hours from the time I tested positive that I lost my sense of smell and it effected me far more than I would have ever thought. 

I have heard from others about the loss of sense from others. Tommy, Sarah, Maria, all of them have told me about it when they had to deal with Covid themselves, but it was mostly just one more data point that I would log. Once it occurs to you it changes the perspective. 

Some More Great Ones

 I've run into a few more great lines that I've cataloged into my "Ever Shade" label (see here) for posterity. They all come from the same aggregator, and I may have . . . "may" have . . . changed a word or two. 

The first is apropos for this blog:

I fall in love with books more than people.

How true is that. I can think of hundreds and dozens of books that I've loved. I won't say the second half of that statement, but it's a truism aint it?

Another Great One

 This one is similar to one I posted a while back (see here), as a part of my ever shades post (see here) or is it evershade? Maybe evershades? Regardless, I'm not sure why I didn't post this then. Maybe times have changed, maybe I was just listening at the right moment this time. 

I don't normally listen to Adele or country music. Too many memories and thoughts that I'd rather avoid. My children don't hold to the same guideance however so the other day someone asked Alexa to play Hello by Adele, and it was this that hit me.

Hello from the other side

I must've called a thousand times

To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done

But when I call, you never seem to be home

Lines On Love

 I ran into these few lines today which I thought fit perfectly with my Ever Shade label (see here). Most of these are on love and loving others. 

The first is a good one. A quick, somewhat deep one that hit me.

Just a forever love kind of guy living in a temporary love kind of world.

How Has This Not Made the List Yet?

 When I was in college, I was the captain and president of the lacrosse team, and for a short time the “face off” specialist. My buddy Jay and I had a technique where I would clamp the ball on the whistle, spin my back onto the other player, and then flip the ball directly to Jay as he raced towards us. He wouldn’t he have to move his stick, I’d just be able to pop it directly to him and off he raced for a goal. 

That could have been the apex of my life (been nadirs ever since?)

These Hit Me As Well

 I ran across a few lines that hit me so much I thought I would share (like these). They come from a different source, anonymous this time, so I hope they don't mind me posting them. I doubt that they do.

The first I liked because so often water and waves and the ocean are used in analogies. Probably because it's something everyone can relate to and it never stops moving. 

I was sand

you were waves.

Every time you inched closer,

you pulled away.

Shouting in the Wilderness

 Feels like I'm shouting into the wilderness with these posts now . . . talking to no one . . . maybe this label group of ever shade has run its course (see here), but I saw a few more that hit me.

Molly writes:

All I want is peace and sweep me off my feet chemistry.
Fuck! Why is it that hard?

Adjustment Bureau Line Almost

 I ran across a silly movie that I watched on a plane years ago. It's a Matt Damon and Emily Blunt vehicle, and honestly, I don't know how it got made. The writing is pretty standard, the story is silly, the scope is limited. The acting is good, but that's because it has so many good actors in it. 

At the end of the Adjustment Bureau the two main characters who are in love have to risk their lives and their futures for each other and there's potentially wonderfully soliloquy on the verge of being delivered. It doesn't come. Instead there is a humdrum couple of lines about risk and love. 

A Few More that Caught My Eye

 I saw a few more to add to this list of great lines et al.

This one comes from my North Connection again, but via Sassy 'n Shit (a moniker I think is awesome). 

Your heart is the hardest thing to convince when it's time to let someone go.

Another Great One (or Two)

As anyone who reads this blog will know, I love reposting content that hits me deeply in my soul from a Twitter user I follow (see more HERE)

Today's are poignant and powerful as well.

First from Skywatcher is this one on ghosts:

Some people, although living and breathing, must remain ghosts, unreachable, by their own choosing. 

Couple From Up North

As you all know I glommed onto a Twitter account with some terrific, and poetic content, (see more of it HERE) that every now and then I like to repost and share because some of them hit me. 

Today's was definitely a hitter. It comes from Your Devil:

I can't save you. I don't even want to. I spend and inordinate amount of energy just to be able to function in this dysfunctional world. If you can't meet me half way then we have nothing. I won't let you drown both of us.

This next one, from Jess, is simple, straightforward, and powerful as well:

Silence screams the loudest answers. 

Evershade, evershades, ever shade, ever shades, shades of Betsy

Soulmates

 Several on soulmates today. 

I saw one that caught my eye by Jasmine. She wrote:

Soulmates always find each other. 

I agreed. Or I like to think I do. But it made This is Fine write:

Do soulmates even exist?

Yet More for Evershade

 I've been posting lately to the Ever Shades label (see here) and really it's become a holding place for all those little bon mots that I can't put anywhere else. 

The first is simple and and thoughtful and it hit me when I read it. Why not keep it here?

You cannot change them by loving them harder.

Too true. Sometimes you love them by leaving them alone. Maybe they come back. Often they don't.

Just One This Week

 Once more in the Ever Shade label, a simple yet long one. Spoke to me. Maybe to you too.

It wasn't personal to her, but it was to him. She was like a tidal wave when he could barely tread water. He just wanted to know her, but that was too much. Still she stayed, in the back of his mind, and all he could hope for was that she truly knew he'd always be there for her.

That one hit me.

Evershade, evershades, ever shade, ever shades, shades of Betsy

More Ever Shades

I've fallen in love with these Ever Shade posts (see here), and really enjoy being on the lookout for new ones to post each week. Here's this weeks sample:

This first one comes by way of "austere" and she says:

Asking yourself if their feelings were real, will destroy your heart.

Another Few From The North

 Anyone who reads this blog must know that I love this Ever Shade series (here), so I'm adding to it today. 

First an entry from someone named Lava Dog. 

Forgiveness is never about undoing the past . . . it's about making a better future possible. 

Starting a New Series

 I'm going to start a new series, to help me catalog some of the ideas that come up. You know I'm a fan of these tagged series. I have my first line series (here), my lines about the morning series (here), and my series on poignant line called Ever Shade (here). This next one I'll file under Sunset Perfect (here) which is already started.

The thing is I intend to use this to store information I may find that could be useful for my writing. In this case today, I ran into several things that I think would be worthwhile for the book I just wrote last November. It was about a lady who ran off to Colorado to help get her life together. I realized even then I needed a catalyst that makes her pick up and move. I think I found a decent one. 

30 Rock Moments

 It's not everyday that you find a poingnant line in 30 Rock. Usually it's just inane pabulum that’s hard to laugh at. In this case it was Julienne Moore as Nancy and Alex Baldwin as Jack. Old lovers trying to work through her being married. Wanting to be together. He tells her he loves her . . .

Nancy: Stop! 

Jack: Let me talk.

Regrets!

 I used to live by this mantra, I'm glad to see it's still out there and around!

That "relationship we were afraid to have" hits home at time.

Elizabeth, Betsy 

Evershade, evershades, ever shade, ever shades, shades of Betsy