When Beowulf is dying he has time for a few pithy words, including:
“I took what came,
cared for and stood by things in my keeping,
never fomented quarrels, never swore to a lie.”
If, when the time comes, I could sum up my life the same way, I’d be satisfied, wouldn’t you? I just love Anglo-Saxon poetry. The translation is, of course, Seamus Heaney’s.
Did you know that although she was not credited by name, one of the executive producers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was none other than Dolly Parton? Really. She had a production partnership (called Sandollar Entertainment) with Sandy Gallin, who had managed Dolly’s career. You gotta love it.
I wonder if that is why Buffy has the same birthday as Dolly? That’s January 19 for the uninformed, which, by the way, is also our mother’s birthday. Sometimes life just really makes perfect sense.
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