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thinking about Margot Fonteyn
Margot Fonteyn was a great dancer (the wikipedia page) who is credited with saying “The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.” She died in 1991.
The tribute song by Eddie from Ohio moved me from the first performance when I heard it in the mid-2000s and every time since. I added emphasis to phrases that I’ve tried to incorporate into other communication.
Margot Fonteyn you’re a dancing Eleanor to and fro
who would know you ever touched the floor
Margot Fonteyn know for now and evermore
you’re looking great in tights and bows
your palm contains the front ten rows
you had the moves but no one knows
that your legs were touched by the hands of God
but your heart stands on its toes yeah, your heart stands on its toes
Wheels of misfortune a retired nurse down south living on a memory
living hand to husband’s mouth
when most call on a pension and act senile and mean
you pirouette as Juliet and look like you’re eighteen
Chorus
smallest things can cause a change like a bullet to the spine
and who would know that wasn’t planned you act like it’s all fine
should I need a private maid would you please be mine?
roll me through your garden and push me from behind
Chorus
but this ain’t how it happens for queens and cavaliers
you know something we don’t your ending’s not down here
Birthday Invitation
In the year I was born a postage stamp cost 4 cents. A new home cost $13,725 and the average worker earned $5,620 per year. The most popular new tunes on the radio were “Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”, “Only the Lonely” and “Are You Lonely tonight?” Elvis had just been released from the army. Most adults watched the Kennedy-Nixon debate on TV – an event that shaped political media and gave birth to the economic forces that make my career possible more than three decades later. When Kennedy won the election, he vowed to “get this country moving again” and opened the door to the decades of inflation that governed the way our generation views money. Tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (and Cuba) were high and many believed that a nuclear war was not only possible but likely. Cassius Clay won the gold medal in boxing and our current 50 star U.S. flag became official on the day after I was born – July 3, 1960.
Please join us in celebrating this mile mark in the passing of time – either Thursday night at the Oarhouse, at a birthday BBQ at Money Island on Friday or our own private get together as soon as we can arrange it.
