How Getting Down Can Lift You Up
This week Steve has been at a meeting in Orlando. I came down with a stomach bug the day he left. After the initial misery of the situation, I did little else but stay in our recliner and watch one cheesy movie after another. Most of them I wouldn't have rated higher than two stars out of four. Today I watched a movie that instead of helping me just pass the time, it also led me to reconsider the value of the people in my life. Mrs. Palfry at the Claremont is set in London. For the good of everyone she decides to live in a less than desirable residential hotel. Most of the residents seem cut off from those they have known before, and Sara Palfry soon realizes that no one outside of the Claremont is seeking her out either. She is comforted by the memory of a loving husband long gone. Her daughter only speaks of her duty owed to her mother but there seems to be little indication of real love. She visits her mother only once and that was to berate her for an incident with Sara...