Of course, I couldn’t resist to re-blog the ‘dog’s life’ on Bluebird’s blog. Thanks a million for the smiles!
Tag: dogs
One Very Lucky Dog & Doris Day – Written By Darlene Craviotto
Today I found this really wonderful, heartwarming story about Doris Day and Mary Hartmann – written By Darlene Craviotto. I was weeping when I read the blog post and I thought I needed to share Darlene’s Memory. I’m sure, it leaves you with a smile – and tears in your eyes, just like me.
Doris Day died yesterday and that’s why I’m writing this post.
I wasn’t a friend, or a member of her family; just like everybody else, I knew her from the movies. I used to be a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I got to meet a lot of big movie stars there, from Lucille Ball (who hated it when the tour guides leaned on her Rolls Royce to talk with her) to Paul Newman (whose piercing blue eyes locked with mine one day at the studio commissary, and my knees have been weak ever since). I never had a chance to meet Doris Day on the Universal lot. But one rainy night in Hollywood she was a good friend to me and a beautiful Golden Retriever named, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
It was long ago, when I was a member of a struggling group of actors who worked all day at the tours at Universal, so we could work all night (for free) performing plays at a little theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Seven nights a week, one block down from the Weird Museum, above a toy store and Fredericks of Hollywood Sexy Lingerie, overlooking the stars of Ann Margret, Gene Barry, and James Cagney, we practiced our craft and shared the Hollywood dream.
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Caturday funnies
Bluebird of Bitterness entertains us with Caturday funnies. Thanks so much for the giggle.
Spring poetry
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Sunbeams touch the cooled down ground
the skies turn blue, I hear the sound
of birds in trees and on the wire
the twitters which I do admire.
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The plants turn green and so do trees
I see the wasps, flies and the bees
flying, humming to the flowers
spring time does have all these powers.
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Word awakes and colors spear
nature seems to reappear.
I feel the warmth right on my skin
the circle of life is to begin.
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Here I see the growing corn
there I see some babies born.
A litter full of baby cats
of dogs or rabbits, even bats.
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It’s beautiful to look around
plants, animals and things I found.
Spring is great in every style
It makes me sing, and dance and smile.
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Copyright Aurora Jean Alexander, April 2015
