The Ink and I, or,
IÕm History
It took a few more years, not to
mention a serious illness, for me to come up
with the next one.
That would be the next two.
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It may be that you need to
live a lot of years and go through a lot of stuff before life starts to make
sense to you. Or maybe not. |
Let me introduce you to my
Grandma Ida:
One of the things she loved (other
than little baby me) was movies.
One of her favorite Òmovie starsÓ was someone who was the biggest star of the
1950Õs:
Doris Day had been the most
popular singer of the 1940Õs, and then she became a HUGE
movie star in the 1950Õs and into the 1960Õs. She sang in all her early movies,
but then she started to get parts in serious movies as a dramatic actress.
Then, in 1956, she was in a movie
called
which was directed by a very
famous director named Alfred Hitchcock.
(Hitchcock made suspense movies,
and later on had a TV series
that featured
a different ÒsuspensefulÓ story each week. My sister always made me watch it
and it scared me to death.)
Anyway, in the movie ÒThe Man
Who Knew Too MuchÓ, Doris Day played a woman who was
the wife of a diplomat, but she was also a famous singer. She sings a song to
her little boy
at the beginning of the movie, and later on, after the boy has been kidnapped,
she sings the song again
so that he can hear her and escape.
The name of the song is Que
Sera, Sera. It
became a huge
hit on the radio
and everywhere, and was a popular song for a very long time.
Grandma Ida LOVED this song.
As soon as I was old enough, she taught me the words to the song,
and I would sing it for her all the time. I was very young.
According to the song, que
sera, sera
means
What will be, will be.
