Thought for Today: A Love Story
Katharine Hepburn and Tracy Spencer made nine movies together. Two weeks after making their last movie, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Spencer died suddenly.
"They were motion picture nobility, but they never went out together to restaurants, movie premieres, or big parties. They maintained separate residences and the press honored their privacy." *
Spencer was married.
During the twenty-seven years they shared their lives together, unmarried, the press respected their privacy. Unimaginable today. "It was a unique feeling that I had for S.T.
I would have done anything for him. My feelings -- how can you describe them? -- the door between us was always open. There were no reservations of any kind. . . It is called LOVE." **
* The Private World of Katharine Hepburn by John Bryson with a forward by KH. Little Brown & Company 1990. ** ME Stories of My Life, KH. 1991. Knopf.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
On the Subject of Love:
"We use this expression very carelessly. 'I love you.' What does this mean? It seems to me I discovered what 'I love you' really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you.
"LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything. What you receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and you cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious but it does not necessarily happen.
"It really implies total devotion. And total is all-encompassing -- the good of you, the bad of you."
~Katharine Hepburn, American actress (1907 - 2003) ME Stories of My Life, 1991, Alfred Knopf.
"We use this expression very carelessly. 'I love you.' What does this mean? It seems to me I discovered what 'I love you' really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you.
"LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything. What you receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and you cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious but it does not necessarily happen.
"It really implies total devotion. And total is all-encompassing -- the good of you, the bad of you."
~Katharine Hepburn, American actress (1907 - 2003) ME Stories of My Life, 1991, Alfred Knopf.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Common Sense ~ Integrity ~ Good Taste
In The Private World of KATHARINE HEPBURN, the actress stated, "I have written about things everyone experiences: success, failure, sickness, moving out of a house you love, and smashing up a car. But I'm not going to write anything about my deep personal life. I don't understand why people care about things like that."
Hepburn sailed, swam, golfed, played tennis, bicycled, walked, worked out with a private trainer ~ did her own gardening (refused to hire a gardener) and stood on her head each day for four minutes.
The New York Times described Hepburn's "characteristic feisty reverence for common sense, integrity and good taste."
Books:
At age 77, in 1987, Hepburn wrote her first memoir titled, The Making of 'The African Queen' or How I Went To Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind.
The Private World of Katharine Hepburn written and photographed by John Bryson, Foreward by KH, Little, Brown and Company, 1990.
ME, Stories of My Life, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991.
In The Private World of KATHARINE HEPBURN, the actress stated, "I have written about things everyone experiences: success, failure, sickness, moving out of a house you love, and smashing up a car. But I'm not going to write anything about my deep personal life. I don't understand why people care about things like that."
Hepburn sailed, swam, golfed, played tennis, bicycled, walked, worked out with a private trainer ~ did her own gardening (refused to hire a gardener) and stood on her head each day for four minutes.
The New York Times described Hepburn's "characteristic feisty reverence for common sense, integrity and good taste."
Books:
At age 77, in 1987, Hepburn wrote her first memoir titled, The Making of 'The African Queen' or How I Went To Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind.
The Private World of Katharine Hepburn written and photographed by John Bryson, Foreward by KH, Little, Brown and Company, 1990.
ME, Stories of My Life, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Quoting a worthwhile author, poet or sharing a photograph is one of our bookshop pleasures.
Last night we attended a live stage production ~ which we do sometimes ~ and came home feeling drained. We witnessed spousal fighting, shouting, swearing, menial conversations in mundane domestic settings ~ all on stage. It was depressing.
One cannot help but feel that we could have been at home beside the fire reading a good book. Ah , yes, and the wind and snow was blowing. The roads were slippery; parking was a challenge and the lineup long.
Oh, the pleasures of a good book.
~ lw
Last night we attended a live stage production ~ which we do sometimes ~ and came home feeling drained. We witnessed spousal fighting, shouting, swearing, menial conversations in mundane domestic settings ~ all on stage. It was depressing.
One cannot help but feel that we could have been at home beside the fire reading a good book. Ah , yes, and the wind and snow was blowing. The roads were slippery; parking was a challenge and the lineup long.
Oh, the pleasures of a good book.
~ lw
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Christina Rossetti"s Who Has Seen The Wind
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
~Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) British Poet
Caroline Kennedy included Who Has Seen the Wind
in her 2005 book, A Family of Poems/ My Favorite Poetry For Children. Hyperion.
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