Movies and Television are a way of escape for me. They are a place to run away to when real life just becomes to much...I have done this so many times in my life too many to count. They are a soft place to land at the end of a bad day,they are happy ever after, and love always wins!! I love MOVIES! When I was a little girl, I could sit for hours and listen to all my Disney records and just escape into a fantasy world. And so I did! I would become the victim in Emergancy with John Cage and become Laura in Little House on the Prairie! Every year we could not wait for the Wizard of Oz to come on. We would all sit around the television and pick a character that we thought we were the most like. We also liked The Sound of Music, The Ten Comandments, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.....the list could go on forever! What a great escape! When I was in middle school, and deeply in love with John Travolta (I still am!), Grease was the biggest movie at that time and I went to see it twice! That was a lot back then since we really didn't have the money. When I was a freshman in high school, I enjoyed Urban Cowboy! That was truly the best part of 1979 ever!! When I was going through my divorce, Bridget Jones Diary carried me through many lonely nights. Now don't get me wrong, I am a Christian and I rely heavily on prayer and going to God in a time of trouble..... But you know what? He understands my love of MOVIES most of all!! When I am up late tending to mom and she is feeling down or hurting all we have to do is put in Lilies of the Fields with Sydney Portea and we are lost in time! The old movies are some of the best! When my boys are at home and I know their lives are a mess and they need comfort all I have to say is" lets watch the Incredibles!" For a moment in time, they are all five and sitting on the couch with me, laughing and loving each other. When my daughter is having boy trouble feeling bad and wants to come over, we just curl up on the couch and watch Pride and Prejudice and waiting for Mr. Darcey to walk through that field at sunrise and wisks us up into his arms and rescue us from saddness and being lonely ohhh Don't you just love that Mr. Darcey!! When I want to just be left alone all by myself, I will watch You've got Mail, Enchanted, The Wedding Planner, The Trouble with Angels, Runaway Bride, or Julie and Julia! So whatever part of my life that I look back on, I can relate it to a good movie or television show that just made life better.
