Movie Monday: The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project - MOVIE

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How's this for timing?! Today's prompt is "movie" and it falls on a Monday... and I have a new movie to share as a "Movie Monday" post. :) Read on!

For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in THE BUTTERLY HOURS by Patty Dann.

I welcome you to join me, if you like! I've divided the prompts by month, and the plan is to respond to 3 (or so) a week. For some of these I may write poems, for others prose. The important thing is to mine my memory. Who knows where this exploration will lead?

For links to the prompts I've written on so far this year, please click on The Butterfly Hours tab above. 

This month's prompts include: mail, moon, mouse, moving, museum, music, music lesson, name, necklace, neighbor, nightgown.

MOVIE

I have so many movie memories! Watching THE TEN COMMANDMENTS over and over again with my siblings... also MARY POPPINS (and using umbrellas to try and "fly" off the back of the couch), THE SOUND OF MUSIC, THE HOBBIT... My mom taking me – just me – to see THE BLACK STALLION.

in a funny coincidence,
we are playing
the E.T. theme as part
 of my summer string
orchestra concert!

Seeing E.T. as a family (all 7 of us at a small theater in historic downtown Covington, LA). Waiting in line for to see STAR WARS (somewhere in central Florida. I was young!). Seeing DIRTY DANCING (and many other movies like RAMBO and ROCKY) with church friends... and also with my father (at either Roebuck or Irondale theaters which no longer exist)!

Then there's our weekly date night tradition throughout our marriage, which started with DRIVING MISS DAISY on our first date (1990) and has brought us to many many movies... including our yearly tradition of watching IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. These days our adult sons often accompany us to the movies.

And now: Movie Monday! Most recently we did a TOY STORY marathon before going to the theater to see TOY STORY 4 (Trussville – our new “home” theater). So much fun! I love this series and can relate to those fears of being set aside, forgotten, outgrown... and also to the desire to do my job for my kid... and the pangs we all feel about growing up... and of course I have not just the child-me lens, but the parent-me lens. We were talking about which was our favorite TOY STORY movie, and I think for me it's 3 (though how can you not pick 1, when it started it all?!). And 4 is pretty awesome. I love how Woody was able to reinvent himself at the end... to every thing there is a season. There are many ways to love... beautiful and funny and tender, all!

One final memory: Our oldest son Daniel, who had some speech issues early on pronounced Toy Story “Tee Stee.” Adorable!