At the suggestion of a great mind I know this is my latest and greatest blog entry. It is a recent event/ lifetime in the making.
I want to preface this story by talking about someone I have long admired and followed, Jane Fonda. When I was younger and a Whole Earth catalogue, Mother Earth News, underground newspaper poet kind of a girl I loved Jane Fonda. If I was out and about and saw Jane on the cover of any magazine, I would buy it. One article in particular I held on to, it showed Jane, during her marriage to Tom Hayden, with many pictures of Jane, out shopping for groceries or in the home they lived in. In that article she became more of a real person, someone I could relate to. Jane, a woman who wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed in, a trait I greatly admired and very much related to
.I was surrounded by some very strong women in my own life, my grandmother, Sadie, being one of them, a liberated woman before the term became popular. My own mother was a rock, having survived the adversities of life from the age of two, beginning with the loss of her father. She was raised along with her two brothers by a young single mother, my grandmother, Thirsa.
To get back to my original thought, Jane Fonda. The more I listen to Jane, the more I know why I love this woman. She is honest, straightforward, no nonsense, without an ounce of pretension. I listened to an interview she recently posted on her FB page. During the interview she talked about her favorite character that she loved playing, Gertie Nevels, in The Dollmaker. This just happens to be my favorite character also. Her character is the epitome of strength through tragedy and heartbreak. If you have never seen this movie you should.
As I am wont to do in much of what I write I will pontificate a bit As Jane talks during the interview you get to know a woman whose life has not been perfect, but a woman who has come to know that in the weaknesses of imperfection there is beauty, it is found in love and forgiveness. That is where true strength is found.
As for my recent event. About 11 or 12 days ago I received an email from a friend of mine, Chris. He mentioned Jane Fonda because it happened to be on her page where we met and became friends.Through his email the little seed of thought was that I should post that on Jane's page thanking her and telling her that I had made a friend on her page. Which is exactly what I did. Yesterday I got on FB and saw a notification that Jane had commented on my post. I was so excited I had to share it with Chris. Because that's the way it is, when you are friends with someone and you know something that might please them you want to share it.
Chris has always done that, through our friendship, shared things I never would have thought about. Because of him I have come to love Rudolph Valentino and silent movies, Patti Smith's music, as well as so many other things. So here's my little poem for you Chris, it's very short and called Friends.
We are friends
Even though we live
Many miles apart
We are friends
Where it counts
From our hearts.
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