From The Writer's Almanac - For Valentine's Day
Zelda Fitzgerald, née Sayre, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's (books by this author) great muse and more. He modeled many of his characters after her, and he even included lines in his books that were from letters that Zelda had written him.
The two went on their first date on her 18th birthday. Her family was wary of him, and she wouldn't marry him until his first novel was actually published. Zelda was still 18 when she wrote this letter to Scott in the spring of 1919:
"Sweetheart,
Please, please don't be so depressed — We'll be married soon, and then these lonesome nights will be over forever — Maybe you won't understand this, but sometimes when I miss you most, it's hardest to write — and you always know when I make myself — Just the ache of it all — and I can't tell you.
How can you think deliberately of life without me — If you should die — O Darling — darling Scott — It'd be like going blind. I know I would, too, — I'd have no purpose in life — just a pretty — decoration. Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered — and I was delivered to you — to be worn — I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet — to the world. And then, when we're alone, I want to help — to know that you can't do anything without me.
One week after This Side of Paradise appeared in print, Zelda and Scott got married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. They became known as the quintessential Jazz Age couple: beautiful, flashy, with money, and often drunk in public. The year they married, Zelda wrote to Scott:
"I look down the tracks and see you coming — and out of every haze & mist your darling rumpled trouser are hurrying to me — Without you, dearest dearest, I couldn't see or hear or feel or think — or live — I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night. It's like begging for mercy of a storm or killing Beauty or growing old, without you.
Lover, Lover, Darling — Your Wife"
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02/12/2010
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My computer desktop
Here is the picture I downloaded for my desktop - From a great site for classic images, Dr Macra's Movie Scans
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Hugh Dillon
I've added a link on the TV page for Hugh Dillon, Canadian actor and singer/songwriter.
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Sickness. the cold, winter
I'm down with a severe sinus infection. I am started now on a round of anti-biotics and a nasal spray.
I don't usually talk about health, but this darn thing has colored my whole "days before Christmas" plans. I am still making cookies, though I can't taste nor smell them, and I check all the Grand childrens' gifts to make sure I have enough for each.... I know my husband wants to go to B&N for his shopping, but I'm nor sure I have the strength to take him there... We will see how the medications help -- I hope so, since I am to host the whole family on the 27th here at this old house.
