Thank you GeeLuv! I'll be crossing my fingers for you. It's really something to look forward to. The whole experience at the movies, the trailers/coming attractions, the anticipation before the movie begins, the dimming of the lights, then the movie. I hope you will find a movie you both enjoy.

wow you have such a rich inner life. so wonderful. I was a Latin major and studied Greek but read so little in Greek literature. I love music. I belong to Amazon Prime Music and Premium you tube. For a while now all I have been listening to is Josh Groban. I love his voice and wonder if he is bipolar. In an interview he said he suffers from anxiety and depression and isolation and always is accompanied by his adorable old dog, I used to love going to movies. One of my favorites was Good Will Hunting. Now they are so expensive and I stopped checking them out. Last time I tried to see a comedy with a friend,I had to take a cab cause I can't walk much because of a stroke and wound up collapsing. Two lovely men helped me to get into a cab. My friend had seen me and got in the cab and I went home. I used to be so athletic.. When I was little I tried the piano and violin. My piano teacher said I was gifted but my mother had bought a used piano that was never in tune and I couldn't take it.
My older sister, now dead, made a fuss of me practicing on the violin and kept on wanting me to play outdoors so that stopped. I still love the old musicals!
I love Cat Stevens and Gordon Lightfoot and Tom Petty and there are others.
every day for hours I listen to Josh Groban now/ I use a desktop and have a cheap smartphone. The stroke affected my hand coordination so I am hopeless on the smart phone. I also used to be an assembly programmer.
Love and kisses
bobby

Hey Bobby! just jumping in on this as well.

We had an awful piano growing up too, Out of tune and or also missing some keys (or they were dead anyway). Sooo frustrating!! lol Dad still plays it though.

Interesting about Josh possibly having bipolar. I suspect that of one or more of the artists I follow. One actually does have it. You likely not be familiar with him, but he's also written a couple of memoirs. In a way, he turned his life around similarly to Cat Stevens. "With Eyes Wide Shut" (i think is the title) is the one I read about that life change. He wrote another book before that, but I forget the content (didn't read it). The artist/author is Brian "Head" Welsch (he's a guitarist in the Nu-metal band, Korn hehe) He's such an adorable person, very lively. (I had to watch an interview after I enjoyed his story so much. forget what the interview was about though, but he was bouncing around in his seat like Tigger from Winne the Pooh. haha) Oh, maybe I was curious because he was coming to town for a book signing. I didn't go though.

i am so sorry I hope you are not reading the news. I wish you had a kitty cat.
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bobby

I will look him up.sounds interesting. Out of tune pianos are the pits right? lol
fondly
bobby

My goodness Bobby, so much interesting stuff! You & GeeLuv both! For one thing, the fact that you studied Latin & Greek feels very meaningful to me. Can you explain what caused your interest in the first place? Rene Descartes wrote in classical Latin. Did you by any chance get to read any of his meditations in Latin? So, you have always been musical & still love it. By the way, I also love Josh Groban's voice. A gift, for sure. Thank you for all this Bobby. So interesting. Hugs & love!

that is so very sweet. give my love and kisses to Mittens!
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bobby

Awe!!! Much love and hugs for WL and her Mitten!

Firstly, sorry for taking over your thread with this WL. I'll be done with this soon. Or Bobby and I could take it to one of our threads...unless you don't mind.

Yeah, actually I was rereading the summary about Cat Stevens/Yusuf, and I think he actually has maybe more of the impressive story. Eh! Actually, maybe it's not even fair to compare really. Nevermind. Scratch that! I dunno!

But this Brian Welch aka "Head" was a hard rock n roller type (nu-metal genre to be exact) and has tattoos and dreadlocks. He got really bad with drinking and drugs (forget the details), but came out of it when he discovered his faith. Anyway, I won't go into details, but just wanted to say that I messed up the book title and even the subject matter possibly. With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to KoRn (2016) is the title. And I'm not really sure it's so much about bipolar, but more with raising his daughter who also struggles with mental health issues (maybe even bipolar too). It was just a very sweet tale of father and daughter love...

but I also wanted to try to find that interview (at least for myself). Maybe that was about the bipolar?? or maybe one of his other books??

hmm, just found this. havent read it yet, but will now.

Brian “Head” Welch Walks Through the Door | Psychology Today

not sure if i will find the interview tonight.

edit: hmmm, maybe he doesn't have bipolar (??) this makes it sound more like unipolar depression, but i could have sworn i read bipolar somewhere. hmm

oops Mitten
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bobby