Lucas In Love and Reed At 80
I’m probably the last person in the galaxy to finally see this, but it was worth the wait: Lucas in Love. Just in case the deep link won’t open, try this one. (This is me admitting to a shameless fasination with anything at all to do with Star Wars.)
The feed was a bit jumpy, but what do you expect, right? The storyline is well worth the eight minutes or so it takes to watch the short. Enjoy.
We are off to Athens, Georgia this weekend for Mary Reed’s grandfather’s 80th birthday. He is an incredible guy, and is in amazing shape. I never imagined that someone in their 80s could seem so…young. (Perhaps he’s in with those guys from Cocoon?)
And, although I have not read Tom Brokaw’s book, I always think of Reed when talking about people from that generation. Here is a man from Georgia, who joins the Army during World War II, becomes a paratrooper, volunteers for Pathfinder (scroll down to the “Landings” section; he was in the 82nd Airborne) duty (one of the elite unit who landed on Normandy in the days before the beach landing to scout and set coordinates for the ships), and then ends the war as some kind of secret agent. Then he went back to Georgia and joined the workforce, and is now living out in the country. I am stunned when I think of the things he has been through, and to him it’s nothing out of the ordinary. He seems very matter of fact about life, and is just thankful to still be here.
Not to pick on the high school kids, but thinking about Reed, and then about the kids from class Wednesday kind of brings a whole new perspective to the generation gap…I mean, they think they have it rough? (I thought I had it rough?)
