Today is my Mama’s birthday, a splendid (no, I’m not saying) age, but she’s more beautiful now than she’s ever been. My mom knows who she is, she walks the walk and is enjoying life now more than ever, I think. The photo above is one of two of her new red shoes, the first pair of three inch high heel she’s ever owned which click and clack a lovely sonorous echo. I think it’s fair to say she was giddy when I spoke with her about the shoes after she and my dad had dinner last night and he helped select her new footwear.
The shoes threw me for a slight loop since this is my mom after all, but it’s worth noting that my mom shares a birthday with Roger Moore, the first Bond, James Bond and it’s quite possible wearing these shoes she could be a bond girl—if Fleming and associates could conjure a female character as strong and varied as she is.
That said, she also shares a birthday with e.e.cummings who would be 115 today were he alive. Thank goodness for all of us his words live on and so does my mom. In honor of both of them, here is one of my favorite of his poems…and yes, for those unfamiliar with e.e., the punctuation below is exactly the way he wanted it; different and cool, just like my mom.
i carry your heart with me
by e. e. cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
2 comments:
Happy Birthday to your mom who sounds like a pretty cool lady - I love the shoes.
Roger Moore, though, is hardly the first Bond. Sean Connery played the role six times before Roger ever did. Also, Barry Nelson, George Lazenby and David Niven. . . all before Roger.
But among other notables sharing your mom's birthday is Lillian Gish, one of my all time favorite actresses. Check her out in Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum.
Yeah, sorry for that glitch, thought I had changed the Roger Moore "first" before it posted:-) Yes...Sean!
I can't wait to see the shoes in person at Christmas time when helping sell her jewelry at holiday market!
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