FAMILY, SNOW & SPEECH

ALL IN A DAY'S WORK...

January 30th, 2011

My own take on movie poster

It takes a great deal for me to RAVE about a movie...this one's the best I've seen in a very long time. Based on fact, it tells of the man who became KING George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II.  After his brother abdicated the throne, George ("Bertie") reluctantly took his place. Plagued by a life-long stuttering speech defect and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engaged the help of a very unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie was able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through the challenging times of war.

A family that shovels together... in New York City**

Here are the FAMILY and SNOW parts of this posting...from a photo I took last weekend in New York City . I grew up in the Big City and I haven't  seen  SO MUCH SNOW  since I was very little ... a looooong time ago! We're used to managing copious amounts of snow here in Central New York...not so in NYC. It was difficult navigating the streets and roads because multiple feet of snow were piled along BOTH sides of the roads..resulting in very narrow passageways. Clearly, the city was overwhelmed by the sheer VOLUME of the successive snowfalls...there was no place to put it all. There were MANY cars buried, street after street. The plows came, but  only added to the frozen cubicles in which cars were confined. Fortunately, city residents can travel by subway when all other options are unavailable. SNOW...the Eskimos have 52 names for snow because it's so important to them. Seems as though, these days, this is a pretty important word to New Yorkers as well!

View of Manhattan Bridge along fairly clear street

 "The first fall of snow is not only an event, it's a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another, quite different. If this is not enchantment, then WHERE is it to be found?" J.B.Priestley

XOX, Abbyj

** This piece, FAMILY, was done for a challenge blog...
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