“It’s not for sissies you know, dining alone, the trick is
to seem mysterious, like the choice is yours.”
Lines from my all-time favorite movie.
Which I’m sure I’ve mentioned here.
"Hope Floats".
Recently on an afternoon trip to the other side of the tracks in a little
town near mine.
Some call little Switzerland…because of how it is nestled into the mountains.
Those lines came back to me as I sat alone in a little outdoor café treating
myself to lunch.
And for the first time since Richard went home I felt like I could
watch our movie. And I did…and it made me feel stronger, because I did it
without crying. :)
And I found an even deeper connection to it as I realized something
I never thought about before.
To help overcome her loss the main character of the movie takes up
photography. :)
It’s like the movie morphed with my life circumstance. I
once related to it because it was so similar to our love story. Now I relate to
it because I’m at a beginning again.
And I watch it with a totally different eye, and see
things I’ve never noticed before.
I thought I would never be able to watch it again.
That’s why this is a big deal to me.
It feels like I found a lost treasure....
Like I got an old friend back. :)
PS. I love the little heart cloud in the first picture. I started calling stuff like that….Winks from God. :)
All I can say is WOW! (and that's only because I can't see through my tears.....)
ReplyDeleteLove ya girlfriend!
Kim
Well I’m gonna make you cry more because I just have to share this now. That is the town Richard and I honeymooned in and it took everything in me to go back there the other day….but I felt like I had to face it…and because I did I got my movie back…and some really special shots. Not only is there a heart in the first shot. But it wasn’t until I looked at them again on this post that I saw the last shot has a tiny heart also. It was taken in a completely different side of town about 2 hours later then the first….like it was followed me! That just made my day, I had to share it!
DeleteI noticed the little cloud heart right away. Certainly a message to you for sure. That little town looks like a great place to visit. I am glad you went back because I know that had to be a hard thing. I had never watched Hope Floats until about two weeks ago when it was on the Hallmark channel on a Saturday afternoon. I loved it too. :)
ReplyDeleteBack in the day at a very lean time in our lives, cable tv was always the first thing to go, because we could care less about the tv. Especially since you could just put a video on and watch what you wanted without all the other garbage in your face. We would watch Hope floats over and over again for days on end. I probable know it line by line if I think hard enough about it…lol
DeleteWe so related to the movie because I was such a broken mess of a person, who saw no worth in herself any longer….but he did… and he waited sooooo long for me….loving me through it all. :)
Well Jane welcome to the Hope Floats club. And I just don’t know how I missed that second heart….but I think it’s so cool you saw it.
"Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me, Birdie." One of my favorite movie quotes.
ReplyDeleteBtw, since this was your honeymoon town, are you sure that heart cloud wasn't a wink from Richard?
And my trick for eating alone is to have a book in my purse.
Yup Kerri and I love the dance scene right after that line. :D
DeleteMy husband was a pretty amazing man. But I don’t think he can put clouds in the sky. So that’s why I call it a wink from God.
However…I can believe he enjoyed watching God do it for me as much as I did. :)
Sometime I have a book with me or I read something on my iphone.
But I’m also very content just sitting and looking around….or I just make friends.
Because I had my camera out on the table the people next to me asked me if I was a food critic. LOL. So that got us chatting.
Made me wonder.. is that why I got such good service?! Hahahaha