1955

I guess everyone has someone that they would like to meet or look up to. Besides Jesus, and Bo Duke from the Dukes of Hazard, mine was always James Dean.

I remember as a pre teen wishing he hadn’t of died. That I would maybe one day be able to meet him, but I can’t.

See today back in 1955, his young, tortured, twisted, beautiful soul was taken from this earth; in a tragic death undeserving to him. Although I guess it fit into his fast lane life.

In high school I remember reading my first biography and it was about James Dean. My preconceived notions about him where more or less turned upside down and inside out. At first I thought that my view of him would be ruined by some of the things that took place during his short life, but it didn’t. I only loved the little bit more I knew about him. That was his character, the person he became to be.

3 quotes of his I love

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today”

“The gratification comes in the doing, not in the result”

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man”


I’ll have to admit he hasn’t crossed my mind in a while. I will have to go dig up that first biography I ever read and reread it this weekend. I might even have to add a few James Dean things to my Christmas list this year too.

Worthwhile

So it was a crazy manic Monday as always in our house.

I pick up the kids from school; we fight all the way home about what we are having for dinner. They want to go out; I want to use up the $200 worth of groceries I bought Saturday. Never the less we make it home and all decide on what to eat. They go outside while I cook and watch the garbage truck and spray each other with silly string they just had to have from the Dollar Tree. Once all this done and dinner has been consumed, not without a little argument that pizza would have been better, we come upon the time of night where it’s all I can do not to pull my hair out.

I love my children, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve worked all day, fought with them on the way home, cooked dinner and now it’s time to do home work and make sure they have brushed their teeth for the week….I meant for the night.

But during all this hair pulling time, I know that something will happen that will make it all worthwhile. Usually it’s the bed side prayers or kisses good night. Tonight however it was a comment my son made to my daughter while she was in the bathtub.

I’m putting away ketchup and sweet tea, when I hear my son yell out, “Hey I can help you wash your nuts!”

I turn to my husband and ask ”did he just say what I think he said?”

Husbands response “yep”

To this all I could do was smile.

Not only because it was funny, but when I asked my son “what nuts?”

He’s response ,”you know the ones that the squirrels eat!”

Ahh, it makes it all worthwhile.