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Tuesdays with morrie....

Last night we went to a play called tuesdays with morrie.
I remember reading the book years ago when it came out but have forgotten about the story.
IT was a good play very emotional, first time for me crying at a play they were that good.
During intermission we went next door to buy some gilato, like fancy ice cream. I ordered pumpkin spice and it was delicious!.
I am still trying to diet but feel that I just can't not live my life and not have some of my favorite foods every once in a while.
WE came home and immediately went to utube to see if we could find the ted kopple interviews with morrie.
We found them easily enough and watched all 9 parts about an hours worth of the news casters interviews, then I watched the entire movie that came out following the book. I was experiencing the tuesdays with morrie all evening from 7;30 pm to 1;15 am....a long time to be watching about this wonderful and courageous man dieing from ALS. Very inspirational and heart warming story.
I did not mean to spend the entire evening this way and Jeff had already gone to bed. I will find my book and reread it as I remember it was very good and much better than the movie.
Wondering if you have read the book or seen the movie?
It is a must see/read if you have not.
Happy saturday.
bizi

I'm glad you had such a nice time at the play, Bizi.

And ice cream every once in a while is fine! Go with a healthy way of living for both your body AND mind.

I hope you enjoy re-reading your book.

waves

Bizi,

I watched the Ted Koppel interviews in the 1990s.
He would update every few months when Morrie was physically declining.

I believe that perhaps my mother read the book many years later. She wanted her brothers to read it too because she thought it would help them with their feelings about their alcoholic father (my grandfather).

I never read the book or watched the movie. It is too difficult but Koppel did a good job and I am happy that you found Morrie's story so powerful.

Mitch Albom went on to write other books that are moving also. The Five People You Meet in Heaven was a big hit.
http://www.amazon.com/Five-People-Yo.../dp/B001PTG46Y

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Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park.
As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him.
In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol).
Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.

The book Have a Little Faith was made into a Hallmark movie for ABC in 2011.

M

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Originally Posted by bizi (Post 1019999)

During intermission we went next door to buy some gilato, like fancy ice cream. I ordered pumpkin spice and it was delicious!.
I am still trying to diet but feel that I just can't not live my life and not have some of my favorite foods every once in a while.
i

Bizi,

The gelato is a good idea. :) :) :)

Mari

Bizi,

Are you getting some rain from the storm?

M

yes we had some rain today. Jeff played with a band called rio luminoso today at the latin festival. They were delayed about 45 minutes because of rain, then it stopped and they were able to play their set then it started to rain again and we walked back to the car. Back intime for him to change and leave to play another gig with a quartet, jazz this time for a wedding out of town. It was raining quite hard when he left. Feel sorry for the festival...wonder if they canceled the remaining events, it was supposed to have been until 10pm.
I am here avoiding my paper work....need to get going....
bizi

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Originally Posted by bizi (Post 1019999)

My grandmother on my moms side of the family died from ALS. This was a very sad situation. BF :hug::hug::hug:

I am so sorry about your grandmother. What a terrible disease.
Awful.
bizi:hug:

Thank you Bizi. ALS has no mercy on the people who come down with the disease. Her child,my mother,was stricken with MS,and my sister has MS. We do not know why this has happened to the females in the family in the last three generations on my mother's side of the family. ALS is different,but it's similar. ALS does take the life of the one who has it. They may have it for two years. We hope that my sister's two daughters don't get MS. So far they are OK. BF:hug::hug::hug: