wendybirdstory

owls courtesy of a photoblog that i used to follow in high school (wvs.topleftpixel.com) it's pretty fabulous.

i am more and more starting to realize that it isn't the huge things in life that make you happy, nor is it really accomplishing the plans that you set up 5, 10, 20 years ahead of time. i really don't think it's about that. i'm reading a biography of gilda radner right now--she was on snl in the 70s and was fantastic. anyways, she married gene wilder, and i mean who wouldn't want to marry gene wilder--they were perfect and made each other laugh. here are some lovely quotes from a book she wrote while she was fighting ovarian cancer in the 80s. she finished her book and was only able to have a live with gene for less than 10 years and she died in 1989.

"it was a very lonely, hard time for me because new york was so big and wo weird and i was always wandering around looking for the sky like a country bumpkin" gilda radner
"anytime you want to get up in the night or you are scared, or afraid about something, just wake me up and we'll have a cheese party" [gene wilder to gilda when she was going through chemo and would wake up a lot in the night nauseous or feverish, or just scared of what the cancer was doing to her]

in other news, it is quite blustery outside my window right now and i hope that i'll be ankle deep in snow when i wake up and step outside tomorrow. also, i saw grizzly bear with the brooklyn philharmonic orchestra last night and it was magical. also, i am marrying chris bear, he wears a bowtie and two toned shoes and is lanky and tall and has the potential for a rugged beard. plus he head bangs when he gets into playing his drums.