Comments on: Superficial things I can’t discuss without crying http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/10/15/superficial-things-i-cant-discuss-without-crying/ dawn friedman's blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Melissa http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/10/15/superficial-things-i-cant-discuss-without-crying/#comment-3303 Melissa Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:09:41 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1016#comment-3303 Wow, I'm gonna have to catch that Lion King Musical. I've seen so many people mention it lately. Must be good. I was going to mention the Velveteen Rabbit, but Leslie beat me to it. That's one of my favorite children's books. There are so many books & movies that reduce me to a blubbering itiot. My husband actually cried over one of those Extreme Makover episodes (he'll hate that I mentioned that :-) ) Oh, several months ago I caught a Little House marathon and cried myself silly. Wow, I’m gonna have to catch that Lion King Musical. I’ve seen so many people mention it lately. Must be good.
I was going to mention the Velveteen Rabbit, but Leslie beat me to it. That’s one of my favorite children’s books. There are so many books & movies that reduce me to a blubbering itiot. My husband actually cried over one of those Extreme Makover episodes (he’ll hate that I mentioned that :-) ) Oh, several months ago I caught a Little House marathon and cried myself silly.

]]> By: PinkPoppies http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/10/15/superficial-things-i-cant-discuss-without-crying/#comment-3302 PinkPoppies Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:01:43 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1016#comment-3302 How about that scene in Billy Elliot, where the father, a British coal miner on strike, has to take apart his deceased wife's piano and burn it so they can be warm at Chrsitmas? And then if that wasn't enough, the father goes to work as a scab to ensure his son can achieve his dream of dancing? And when I saw Lion King this year on Broadway, I wept and wept as soon as the first note began. I am weeping now as I write and think of it. Pink How about that scene in Billy Elliot, where the father, a British coal miner on strike, has to take apart his deceased wife’s piano and burn it so they can be warm at Chrsitmas? And then if that wasn’t enough, the father goes to work as a scab to ensure his son can achieve his dream of dancing?

And when I saw Lion King this year on Broadway, I wept and wept as soon as the first note began. I am weeping now as I write and think of it.

Pink

]]> By: Leslie http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/10/15/superficial-things-i-cant-discuss-without-crying/#comment-3301 Leslie Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:23:38 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1016#comment-3301 Toy Story follows in the tradition of The Velveteen Rabbit, The Happy Prince (by Oscar Wilde), Black Beatuy (of course) and Hans Christian Anderson tales inwhich Steadfast Tin Soldiers, Little Match Girls, Christmas Trees, and things like pots and pans are discarded as rubbish. When I was a kid, I started worrying about my old toys and now that I'm an adult, I'm devastated over their loss. Try looking at an old Sears Christmas Wish Book without big old pangs of bittersweet washing over your heart. Toy Story follows in the tradition of The Velveteen Rabbit, The Happy Prince (by Oscar Wilde), Black Beatuy (of course) and Hans Christian Anderson tales inwhich Steadfast Tin Soldiers, Little Match Girls, Christmas Trees, and things like pots and pans are discarded as rubbish. When I was a kid, I started worrying about my old toys and now that I’m an adult, I’m devastated over their loss.

Try looking at an old Sears Christmas Wish Book without big old pangs of bittersweet washing over your heart.

]]> By: Becca http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/10/15/superficial-things-i-cant-discuss-without-crying/#comment-3300 Becca Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:29:00 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1016#comment-3300 (Can you even believe I'm commenting again?!) Just yesterday I couldn't believe that I was crying (almost, sort of, because really I don't cry much) (at books and such; in real life I cry constantly) at the end of the American Girl movie about Samantha when the uncle and aunt adopt the three poor girls and the youngest, who hasn't spoken in the entire movie, speaks. I mean, that is RIDICULOUS. (Can you even believe I’m commenting again?!) Just yesterday I couldn’t believe that I was crying (almost, sort of, because really I don’t cry much) (at books and such; in real life I cry constantly) at the end of the American Girl movie about Samantha when the uncle and aunt adopt the three poor girls and the youngest, who hasn’t spoken in the entire movie, speaks. I mean, that is RIDICULOUS.

]]> By: Barbara Preuninger http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/10/15/superficial-things-i-cant-discuss-without-crying/#comment-3299 Barbara Preuninger Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:59:35 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1016#comment-3299 What does it say that I felt a "little twinge" just based on your description of that book? What does it say that I felt a “little twinge” just based on your description of that book?

]]>