The Power Of One

The way I’ve always seen it was you have to look up to someone to be able to love them.  You’ve got to be convinced they’ve got something you don’t have, and it’s by going after that---magic, charisma, accomplishments---that you’re living up to your potential.   Everything else is just settling for what’s easy.--Joan Juliet Buck in her 1982 novel, THE ONLY PLACE TO BE
Barbara Reynolds sent a floral card that was actually from an original painting done in 1988 by Christina Rupsch.   Barbara wrote:
9 Jan 92HAPPY NEW YEARS MICHAEL!Thank you so much for the great postcards.  I shall appreciate them always.Any job news yet?  I’m still here.   Rene is still my manager and I’m still on the Intra-Company Desk with Earl Kirk.  The rumor was rampant in December about “earl retirement for non-management”.  An offer was to come in January but no news yet.  Major Accounts are now in the same branch as small business (beginning January 1st).  I’m sorry I didn’t get to L.A. before the Frieda exhibit left.  I’ll call it HOLI-DAZE.  How was yours?   Mine was ‘pretty okay’.  Next year will be better being Friday.  I was able to schedule the week after for vacation.  I guess you’ve been enjoying all of the RAIN.  We had some yesterday.  Ice this morning…had to put the heat on last night.I saw EUROPA EUROPA last Sunday.  Excellent!  I thought of you.  I need to see more movies, write more letters and eat less.  How about you?Love, Barbara
I guess I'll have to add EUROPA, EUROPA to my list to see what Barbara saw that made her think of 'me'.  I wonder.
Alan and I saw a fantastic film called THE POWER OF ONE.   We absolutely loved it.  I want to get the book now.   It was set in South Africa during World War II, the film centers on the life of Peter Philip 'Peekay or PK' Kenneth-Keith, an English South African boy raised under apartheid, and his conflicted relationships with a German pianist, a black boxing coach and an Afrikaner romantic interest.  The guy who played Peekay was acted by an actor named Steven Dorff.  I was really impressed by this young chap.
Alan agreed when we walked out of the theater by saying, “Boy, that was good!”
“To have a brain is not a sin, but to have a brain and not use it, that is a sin.”
-as heard while watching the 1992 dramatic motion picture, THE POWER OF ONE