Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Yesterday our older son, his wife and six year old son came down to our area and we met them at our daughter's house, where we had lunch, watched the kids play in the backyard and then took a walk to a nearby park and the three kids played while we pushed them on swings, spun them on gorounds and kept them from falling off slides. It was cold but so nice to get together, and we're all feeling better about exposure, though we wore masks on the walk and inside our daughter's house. I loved witnessing that the youngest grandson has quite a crush on his aunt and uncle, and let them hold him for long periods. I like to believe that when I'm gone they will be a support to each other, as now. When we returned home we had progresso soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner, and watched "Far From the Madding Crowd" a 1979 movie with Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates. I used to have such a crush on Bates, and I reminded my husband that we saw him in London, live in a theater in the play "Butley" or something like that. We were somewhat confused by the movie so this morning we looked up the synopsis of Thomas Hardy's book. The film was pretty faithful to the novel, but left out a cuuple of crucial plot points that should have been included. Julie Christie was the weak actor in the film. Perhaps, like Elizabeth Taylor, she was too beautiful to believe as a character. They both did better after they aged at conveying emotion. Taylor with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and Christie in "After Her". Today we are taking a break from our schedule: we ate a big breakfast and late, no walk, and no lunch. I'm reading a mystery novel of Stacey Abrams writing as Selena Montgomery and it's pretty good. And fun.