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Tonight I watched NCIS LA and one of the guys was telling how he had a glove from attending an MJ concert, (front row :-)) And Michael threw the glove, he caught it! Then the other guy was perplexed a bit- "Why just one glove?", the guy says just "The King of Pop"and he smiled. I just grinned when I saw that. Later he had to pull out his surgical gloves to check something on the scene and he put one glove on to pick up what he saw, his partner joked with him "Just one glove?" :lol: 8-) 8-) 8-) It was too cool!Something else I noticed tonight at Walmart, walking by the little kids clothes, I saw so many "LOVE" & "PEACE" themes!!! I loved it! I wanted to buy a shirt for my dog!! I'll wait on that, she is going to have puppies in a few weeks and she is fat!Oh and I bet a million bucks (LOL!) that you can't guess the theme of the names for her litter? Go ahead take a guess!! :lol: :lol: We L*O*V*E you Michael!
The Message of the Sunflowers: A Magic Symbol of PEACEby Georgianna Moore, March 2002Dedicated to the Children of the World Who Will Sow the Sunflower Seeds of PeaceOnce upon a time the earth was even more beautiful than it is today. The water was pure and deep, reflecting within itself the sunlight which gave life to all the creatures beneath the waves.The earth was green with many kinds of trees and plants. These gave food and shelter to the birds, the animals, and to all mankind. At night the air was so clear that the starlight gave a glow almost as bright as the moon.The people of the earth lived close to nature. They understood it and honored it and never took more than what they needed from it. The people lived in peace so they prospered and began to build many nations all around the world according to nature's climate.But one day, a terrible thing happened. A strange spirit of greed entered the hearts of mankind. People began to be jealous of one another, and they were not satisfied will all the good things they already had. The nations wanted more and more of everything: more land, more water, more resources. They squeezed precious minerals from the earth to build terrible weapons to defend their nations from other greedier nations. They killed one another. They polluted the air and the water with poisons. Nature began to die. This is called war. War is ugly. It destroys love and hope and peace.Then one day a magical thing occurred. The birds of the air, the animals of the land, and the creatures beneath the waters came to an agreement: if they were to survive, something would have to be done to stop these wars. Only through peace could their world survive."We cannot speak the human language," they declared, "and mankind can no longer understand ours. We must find among us a symbol of peace so brilliant that all who see it will stop and remember that peace and sharing is beautiful.""I am what you need," said a golden sunflower. "I am tall and bright. My leaves are food for the animals, my yellow petals can turn plain cloth to gold, my seeds are many and are used for food by all living beings. Yet, the seeds I drop upon the ground can take root and I will grow again and again. I can be your symbol of peace."All nature rejoiced, and it was decided that the birds would each take one sunflower seed and that they would fly over every nation and plant the seed in the earth as a gift. The seeds took root and grew, and the sunflowers multiplied.Wherever the sunflowers grew, there seemed to be a special golden glow in the air. The people could not ignore such a magical sight.Soon they began to understand the message of the sunflowers so they decided to destroy all of their terrible weapons and to put an end to the greed and to the fear of war. They chose the sunflower as a symbol of peace and new life for all the world to recognize and understand.A ceremony was celebrated by planting a whole field of sunflowers. Artists painted pictures of the sunflowers, writers wrote about them, and the people of the world were asked to plant more sunflowers seeds as a symbol of remembrance.All nature rejoiced once more as the golden sunflowers stood tall with their faces turned eastward to the rising sun, then following the sun until the setting in the west.They gave their goodness to the world so that everyone who sees a sunflower will know that the golden light of peace is beautiful.Sunflowers have become the symbol of a world free of nuclear weapons. After Ukraine gave up its last nuclear warhead, the Defense Ministers of the US, Russia and Ukraine met on a former Ukrainian missile base, June 4, 1996. They celebrated by scattering sunflower seeds and planting sunflowers. Former US Secretary of Defense William Perry said, "Sunflowers instead of missiles in the soil will ensure peace for future generations." It probably don't mean anything.. I'm just bored :lol: :lol: 8-) it's not my fault if you already read it 8-) Just kidding around
I just finished watching The six wives of Henry La Fay and its about a man who six wives think he died in sky diving accident only to find out he is alive when he returns to the funeral that he left plans for....six different times...one of the wives arrives driving a pink caddie with Elvis music playing, there a references to Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and on the casket guess what!! Sunflowers! Happy Movie watching!! :lol:
Funny thing. I watched Elvis and Anabelle this afternoon. A Goldcrest Productions movie. The entire movie reminded me of Michael. It's about a pageant queen who dies of cardiac arrest on stage, and then comes back to life on the morgue table. She then tries to escape her public life by hiding out at the mortician's home. While she is there the young son discovers that she isn't at all the cheerleader type he assumed she was, that in fact she is a very kind person. She tries to make the place more cheerful and starts painting the house. Then she decides to plant seeds, but doesn't tell anyone what it is she planted. I said to my daughter: If it turns out to be sunflowers I'm going to pee my pants. Well, it was sunflowers, and I didn't. Anyway, the movie had a definite Michael theme running through it, everything from cardiac arrest to abuse, from Elvis to the number 7.
Quote from: "mjssoulmate"Funny thing. I watched Elvis and Anabelle this afternoon. A Goldcrest Productions movie. The entire movie reminded me of Michael. It's about a pageant queen who dies of cardiac arrest on stage, and then comes back to life on the morgue table. She then tries to escape her public life by hiding out at the mortician's home. While she is there the young son discovers that she isn't at all the cheerleader type he assumed she was, that in fact she is a very kind person. She tries to make the place more cheerful and starts painting the house. Then she decides to plant seeds, but doesn't tell anyone what it is she planted. I said to my daughter: If it turns out to be sunflowers I'm going to pee my pants. Well, it was sunflowers, and I didn't. Anyway, the movie had a definite Michael theme running through it, everything from cardiac arrest to abuse, from Elvis to the number 7.I just saw this movie too. Before it said "Goldcrest Productions", it said, "Burnt Orange" something else--enterprises or something. I didn't write it down, because I thought I'd remember it. All the time, I'm thinking "BURNT ORANGE?" Are you kidding me :?: Where have we seen THAT color every single day for exactly a year, now?? aww, probably just a coincidence.It sounded like a comedy, the way you described it, and I was completely unprepared for such depth as was there.My favorite thing in this whole movie was Elvis' tender loving care of his dad. Their roles were almost reversed, where the dad became the child, because of a head injury, and Elvis became the parent, taking care of him, reading to him in the evenings, bonding with him, kissing him. Kissing is the most tender unexpected gesture. It was like he was making up for never telling him how much he loved him, before...and maybe the dad wouldn't have let him, before. But they are all each other has, now. So sweet.I loved how the movie didn't write him off as just a prop to make the rest of the story workable (that Elvis could substitute as undertaker, while the town presumed the nondescript dad in the background was still on the job, there). The Dad had a real sweet, loving, and, BTW, witty and clever persona, and the portrayal of him made you feel tenderly towards him, too. This was my favorite part. So many times in real life, people with head injuries or brain malfunction are put away in storage, and never interacted with, as if there is no point. They can't do calculus, or babysit your kids anymore, so what? What does that have to do with their being a person with a beating heart, a breathing Soul, needing to not be treated like some empty chair in the room? This Elvis character was such a good son, with so much on his plate, even having to take on the responsibility of "preparing the dead", as a teenager. I think he felt no one else would understand the specialness of his dad, in his now situation. He let everything slide, to just keep his dad at home. It feels like he was sort of in a Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, himself, even letting the house maintenance go undone, and letting the farm go idle. He was doing only the bare minimum, to keep it together, without cracking. Before he's even grown, he has so many secrets, he can't date or seriously socialize with young people his age, for fear of discovery...The guy was so potentially damaged emotionally, and so alone, and then this pretty little thing gets dropped off onto his embalming table. Of all the sad ways to meet one's true love: TOO LATE. Geez.This was a story about how evil circumstances and controlling people try to mold and reshape and actually, inadvertently, damage you and arrange your life for you, but how you are still able to rise above anything, and be yourself and "be what you wanna be" . I thought Annabelle was a little rough with Elvis. She got right in his face sharply, I thought, and decided to cram some sunshine into his life, with or without his cooperation. Live and learn. We ALL have some rough edges which get rubbed smooth by the permitted friction of loved ones. The only thing which saved this relationship was that her heart was in the right place. She looked into his dad's eyes and saw the little person inside. And...she kept his secret. (If she hadn't TPTB would have taken the dad and put him in a vegetation home for old folks.) This is another movie which had such “a peaceful remoteness” to it! And a decidedly foreign ambiance. It is another movie with fake DEATH, and sunflowers as players in it. It has to be that MJ had a hand in it, eh?
