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Bright cold sunlight fills the home rooms. That gives me good feelings, - - - and makes the cat intensely curious.
Who knows what's ahead?
I have a deadline.
A few ideas are wiggling in my brain - like small rubber balls that won't stop bouncing back and forth.... while my deadline presses.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Traveling Inside Myself
Recently I watched the movie Night Train to Lisbon featuring actor Jeremy Irons.
I had seen it but as I watched it did not recall the story yet I felt that there was something
in it I wanted to "catch' again. And - there was.
The story is a mix of mystery, romance, and discovery set in Lisbon in a non-specific modern
time. The characters too are rather universal and yet non-discript. Their soft identities do
not take away from the stor. The Irons character, a middle-aged professor, saved a girl from
jumping off a bridge in Bern. She runs away and he impetuously hops on a train to follow her
to Lisbon, to find her and to discover her story. You guess soon into the movie that who he
eventually finds, along with an interesting story, will be himself.
The key to the search for the girl is a haunting memoir by a young doctor - the other driving
character. For me the heart of the story rests in the book.
All of this was familiar as I re-visited the movie ...then in the ending and I found what I was
looking for - a piece of verse:
I spent some time today recapturing it. I don't want to lose it again be cause the poem tells
me why I am tied to memoirs and to capturing my past. It is the reason for my own personal
searches and now at 85 years old I have a lot of ground to cover as I find bits of myself and
quilt them together.
This is the passage of one of the characters in the film who writes into his journal which will
come his book.
We leave something of ourselves behind in a place we have been.
We stay there even though we go away.
There are things in ourselves we find again only by going back there.
There are things in ourselves we find again only by going back there.
Join Ellouise Schoettler, host of Stories In Time At Home on a long ago trip to Athens, Greece.
She was transported to Greece as a member of a group trip with her husband, Jim.
Watch as she tells about her fear of the water, and admits how she faces that anxiety with Jim’s help when she is forced to jump onto the ship.
Learn about the momento she bought to mark the occasion ----- and learn what's happened to it 22 years later.
Check out this episode of Stories In Time At Home below, or on MMC’s YouTube channel and subscribe!
