Ok, here’s the million dollar question. Which five people
from history would you choose to have dinner with and why? They can be living
or deceased. One for the money,two for the show, three to get ready and go man go!
Leonardo da Vinci
“For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth with your eyes skywards, for there you have been and
for there you long to return.” –Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo had his hands in all sorts
of pies. Casting the net of knowledge, he amassed an extensive understanding on
many subjects. He set the blueprints for the future. A very eccentric polymath
(A person of wide range knowledge/learning), da Vinci is known for many things:
painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer,
inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Say that ten
times fast! Even though he has been dead for 494 years, I am sure he could give
the greatest minds of today a run for their money.
Joan of Arc
“One
life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice
what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than
dying.” -Joan of Arc. (Reminds me of a Shakespeare quote: “To thine own self be
true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to
any man.”)
She was
persecuted for her Roman Catholic beliefs and was prepared to die for them.
That is of no little matter. I am ashamed to say, in my life; that I don’t have
anything that I believe in so strongly about that I would be willing to die for
it. On May 16, 1920 she was canonized. Joan of Arc is the patron saint of
France. She was and still is a very inspiring, romantic figure in history.
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
“Neither
a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the
making of genius. Love, Love, Love that is the soul of genius.” –Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
An
enduring enigma; combining both light and dark harmoniously. I had the privilege
(although I didn’t know it at the time) to study his works in music class. Papageno/Papagena
anyone? Or perhaps the Queen of Night Aria? It has been surmised that Mozart
heard the voice of God. I don’t doubt it; his music is so prolific and moving.
Laura Ingalls
Wilder
“If
enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty
nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” –Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Selfishly
I choose this one. These were the stories of my childhood. I probably have read
each of her books at least a thousand times, and they never grow old. I
remember being over the moon when my Grandma informed me that Laura Ingalls
Wilder used to live in the same town as my Great-Grandma Blahnik (Spring Valley
MN). These are touching stories about a tight knit
family trying to get by; surviving on just enough. Laura Ingalls Wilder was so much a part of my
upbringing. I feel like I know her on a personal level, even though she died
many, many, many years before I was born. I recommend these books highly, and
for the life of me I don’t know why they are not listed more highly on the list
of classics.
C.S. Lewis
“Courage
is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing
point.”-C.S Lewis.
Many
people are familiar today with ‘The Chronicles
of Narnia’. However the one that I am used to and grew up with was the 1988
BBC version ‘The Lion, The Witch and The
Wardrobe.’ Between the two; I would ask for the latter, always. Barbra Kellerman,
who plays The White Witch, always gave me the creeps! I mean come on! Some
chick comes out of the forest; in a sled, producing sweets out of thin air? And
promises to give you more if you hand over your brothers and sisters? What the
crap?! You know my mom told me to never talk to strangers, and I have a
sneaking suspicion this is why.
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