Mimi's Thoughts

Brief Encounter

I saw a post about platforms and I found a movie recommendation there.

Brief Encounter. A film adapted from a screenplay about a married man and a married woman who meet by chance and have an intense affair.

I went ahead and saw the film , a 1945 classic and then I found and saw the 1974 remake of the film.

While I was completely blown away by the original version, I think the remake was unnecessary.

As an original, it could have been alright… But for a remake, I think it lost the entire story.

The lovers were cold and didn’t even seem to have any sparks…Not only was the chemistry lacking, the conversations were bland and the path to their affair was rushed.

They showed no uncontrollable emotion… The affair had no driving force.

For a film that ran for an hour and forty three minutes, I would say not enough of the time was spent on the lovers and their encounter.

What leaves me pondering is how two good actors, Sophia Lauren and Richard Burton could leave me feeling this way.

Morgan Wallen

Shortly after I marveled at John Legend’s 24 track album, I found a 36 track album that left me thinking.

This one was by an amazing country singer and song writer. He was a contestant on the sixth season of the voice on Adam Levine’s team.

His third album titled One Thing At A Time is what I’m talking about… It is something

I think I’ll dwell on my top 5.

You Proof…amazing song… Honest with no bull crap.

Last Night… Really love this one. I’m not even sure why.

Devil Don’t Know… I try to imagine this one. Truely. Kind of funny, is it possible that the devil don’t know some kind of hell?… Yeah… Some things hurt so much, you got to wonder.

Tennessee Numbers… This makes me sad for whoever relates to it.

Thought You Should Know… This one just gets me thinking of my Su’eddie…everytime.

I’ll recommend the album to anyone. It is beautiful.

He’s a good singer… Morgan Wallen

World Sickle Cell Day

My sister wrote a letter to us today on our family whatsapp group. I asked her if I could share and she replied “definitely sis”.

Here goes:

Dear OBF
Today June 19th is World Sickle Cell Day!! Celebrating warriors like Sever and remembering those who are no longer with us; Ernie, Joe and Hembasoon.

In creating awareness on this day, I pray that my Sever (since we have 3 Sever's in the family 😃) will be the last to have this challenge... do we have any others?... please let us know.
I remember Soon T once posted on Facebook that she wouldn't wish this life on anyone, not even an enemy and she would come with a cane to beat up anyone who decides to get married without testing or going ahead even after testing and discovering that your genotypes don't match. I stand with her still.

So please dear family, test well 3 times and with different RELIABLE labs/hospitals.
Meanwhile it's not a death sentence, you know now, Soon T showed us that life is for living. ❤️💃🥂

Additional information:

OBF (One Big Family) – A large group of my cousins and I… connected by a common grandfather… My maternal grandfather.
Soon T (Also Hembasoon) – an OBFer lost to sickle cell. I wrote about her in Asomy
Joe – another OBFer lost to sickle cell.
Ernie – yet another OBFer lost to sickle cell.

Sever is my sister’s son… He’s a very strong kid…Waring sickle cell with all the strength that he has.

This is a sickle cell awareness post

Daddy

I had wondered and checked a few months ago why I had not mentioned my dad in any of my posts.

I still dont know the answer to that.

My dad and I are assumed to be really close.

We could be…

Today my son wrote a letter to his daddy for father’s day. I thought it was sweet.

I spent the whole day thinking about my daddy relationship and my son’s own daddy relationship.

I think we should show daddies more emotion… maybe, hopefully they’d resiprocate.

Happy father’s day daddy.

Happy father’s day to my son’s daddy too.

Emaistace

When commenting on my posts or responding to my comments on their own blogs, Renard and Daffodils call me Emaistace.

It makes me smile.

I have loved that name since I coined it.

I only worry people will pronounce it wrong.

I was going to write a brief explanation about it’s origin and correct pronounciation but I found something interesting that I want to try first.

My niece is a maker of Beautiful Resin items. Her brand name is Abeda. She wanted to know how her friends and customers pronounce it, so she sent out a question to that effect.

She got some funny and cute voice notes from several people. It was an interesting game.

I would like to know how people pronounce my self-given name.

Let’s play.

Code will be changed 48 hours after the post is published

Divisions

I’m deep in thought this morning.

There must be different segments up there.

Probably Gabriel takes care of the VVIP area. Michael heads the VIP. Raphael must be at the Common Room. Surely there must be another, maybe Uriel is stationed at the shed.

There has got to be segments up there, because we live and act like we aren’t preparing to go to the same place.

Someone help me out here.

I’ve seen us, we pass each other on the street without as much as a ‘hello’… on our way to worship… In different worship houses. Or maybe even the same house.

Some say “He hears us better, we are more righteous”… Others call out “Join us and you will be saved”… I thought we were on the same path, I thought we all call on the same name…

🤔

If we can’t get along here, if we can’t love each other here, if we can’t respect each other here…. And we are all preparing to go to the same place, then…

…surely there are segments up there.

Weepy

Ruby (CODA) & Marisol (The Man Called Otto)

I admit. I’m a weepy person when I get emotional.

Especially with movies.

A few months ago, I heard myself scream in between sniffles “Mimi do you always have to cry like that?”

It was 3am on an insomniac night and I had just finished up the movie CODA.

I think cry is a subtle way of putting it, I literally sobbed that early morning.

It was just as I reached for the tissue to blow my nose again today that I realised A Man Called Otto had that same effect CODA had on me.

I won’t write a review on any of them, they are worth more than just a few words.

I am recommending these two movies.

CODA Children of Deaf Adults – [Marlee Matlin] – Ruby gave a stellar performance.
A Man Named Ottto – [Tom Hanks] – The character Marisol really touched my heart.

I hope you love them like I do and I hope they make you feel.

A Beautiful Life

Whenever I get a chance to find new and good music, I take it and I enjoy it.

The Danish Netflix movie A Beautiful Life was one of these chances.

We see a fisherman who loves to sing and play music with no intention of becoming a music star. Somehow, his talents are discovered by a music producer and there the story grows.

Elliott, the fisherman/musician takes us through the movie with beautiful songs that he gets to write and sing.

The movie may not be everyone’s cup of tea as it falls under the cheesy romance drama category but it is a good story.

To be very honest, it was Elliott’s looks that drew me to the movie. He is a hunk.

Elliott is played by Danish singer Christopher Lund Nissen. He’s commonly known as Christopher. I’m glad to have found him and I’ve latched unto some of his previous songs.

My favourite song from the movie is the one with the same title as the movie… It’s a beautiful song… A beautiful Life – Christopher

Chocolate Caramel Coffee ☕

I love a good hot cup of beverage.

One of my favourite mixes is Lipton and milk with little or no sugar. I tried after a few nudges to use some honey but it just didn’t feel the same.

For me, honey goes with lemon tea, camomile tea and the likes.

I also love coffee… a lot. Sometimes I blend it with some cocoa powder when I want something thick but strong.

Today, I suddenly had the need to add some sweet to my thick but strong. I didn’t want to add sugar and so I thought I should add some honey.

I thought about it for some time and decided I wouldn’t like a Chocolate-Coffee-Honey mix.

I went with the next best thing… Caramel.

I had a little left from a batch I had made. And it worked just right.

I love my new beverage mix. To you it’s kind of a Mocha remix, for me it’s…

Chocolate-Caramel-Coffee.

Three Friends

Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?

I didn’t have a favorite book.

My sister did.

And so I found myself picking it up everytime I went to the school Library.

I think she liked it because she was friends with two other girls and together they had a thing… Just like the book.

I hit the search for an image of this book today and I found it… but I was in doubt. There was a photo of two boys and a girl. I thought it used to be three girls.

I called my sister up immediately and she was shocked too. We both remembered it differently.

I sent her some photos I had found and she replied;

This page is so vivid like yesterday.

The mind of a child is so plain, I didn’t think much about the difference in the sex of the friends. I was just excited to read about them as I also was in a threesome friendship, some things come as we grow older
Msugh

Her favorite book became mine.

Three Friends – Montgomery, Baruch And Gray. 1944