Today I have had two amazing and moving experiences. They are not connected in any way, except that they both made me cry with joy and wonder.
One was this: https://www.facebook.com/YFMShareYourSound/videos/301735373628655/?sk=h_ch
I have been a fan of Heart for many, many years but that performance has got to be the most moving for me, and I don't even know why. Led Zeppelin? Not really. "Stairway to Heaven"? More so, but I always thought I'd heard it too often. Men in tears? Probably.
Anyway, this truly moves me every time I watch it, and the watching is usually followed by searching out the playlist that has the most Heart in it.
The other was the CBC production of "Anne of Green Gables". My brother Sean has mentioned it several times, usually to talk about the value of its lighting. "Anne" is something else I've felt I know well, having read it many times to myself and others and seeing an earlier production with Megan Follows and Colleen Dewhurst.
This version tore my heart out. I had never thought of Anne the way she's shown in this amazing presentation; in fact I often thought that Anne was almost Pollyanna-ish. In this production, and I only saw a few episodes, she was so almost-broken, incredibly brave and insightful, so knowledgeable, poetic, open, hopeful and needy that I thought I couldn't sit through it.
All in all, I've had a "Where's the chocolate? Where's the wine?" kind of day.
Is this the second season of Anne? We have cut the cord, so I am out of the loop. I don't know Heart, but your link is playing now.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know it was possible not to know Heart! Whodathunk! Boy do we live in different worlds, AC.
ReplyDeleteIt's a reminder that's probably quite good for me, actually. I tend to think we all experience life in similar ways. But of course we don't.
Lorna, I too liked Heart's version of Stairway to Heaven, not that I found it much different from the original in many ways.
The new Anne I wasn't taken with, but I'll watch anything with RH Thompson in it. -Kate