Not to me directly, but it still counts.
Almost every Friday in the late afternoon, when I'm finishing up my planned Chinese Medicine work for the day, it hits me that it is Friday and Thank God It's Friday. Carol asked me today what I was gonna do for this holiday weekend. I laughed saying that everyday is the weekend for me and I live for the weekend. I wish I had a snare drum to finish that sentence.
No matter how this teach Chinese Medicine to the masses turns out at least I loved doing it everyday and that makes for an enjoyable life. I remember when I didn't have something I loved doing everyday like Chinese Medicine, so I'm not giving it up easily.
I love Friday nights not to drink, but I get to stream Bill Moyers' new weekly installment over the Internet. As hopeless as some, most, of his pieces are -- I still admire that guy so much that it's tough to for me to not feel good after watching that great man do his weekly thing.
Well, I admire Roger Ebert just as much. I'm not sure if I can articulate it clearly, but that guy loves movies and so do I. I love to learn about things I love. And that guy has taught me so much through his reviews that I wonder if I would even love movies without him giving me a weekly dose of his reviews to open up that locked closet of movie appreciation.
We know he can't speak after all of his surgeries. And over the years I've wondered if Chinese Medicine could help his cause. It might have, but I don't know if it could now. I miss hearing his voice on his TV review show.
A few weeks ago, it hit me that the movies that he does a "director commentary" on I could get from the Seattle library. I got the movie Crumb and I listened to Roger's commentary along with the director's. It was as inspiring as an Bill Moyers pieces in my books.
It's late for me, as I get sleepy at this time of day, everyday. I wanted to go to sleep after just finishing watching this movie with their voice-over.. But I wanted first to say thanks to Roger. Because at the end of this movie Roger says to the director something like, "Thanks for a great movie". Roger's voice is exactly how I feel when I get to hear a great Chinese Medicine doctor speak. The director says something back like, "Roger thank you for doing this (voice-over) with me. Because if I did it by myself, I'd speak for 20 seconds and then be silent." I smiled and wrote this letter of thanks to both of them.
