Echoes Of A Summer (1976)

              Jodie Foster gives a powerful performance in this 1976 drama by Don Taylor. Jodie plays the role of eleven-year-old Deirdre, who suffers from an incurable heart trouble. After trying to get help from every corner for about two years, Deirdre's parents decide to move to Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia to help her live her last days peacefully. Joined by a funny little boy from their neighborhood, the family manages to give Deirdre a beautiful 12'th Birthday celebration (which will be her last birthday). The movie is filled with scenes which will give the viewers a roller-coaster ride through moments of laughter & heartbreaking emotions.

My rating for the movie : ♞♞♞♞♞♞♞♘♘♘ ( 7/10 )

There Will Come Soft Rains

              I have a huge interest in Old Time Radio shows - Dimension X and X minus One. One episode titled "There will come soft rains" introduced me to Sara Teasdale. She was an American Lyrical Poet. Her poems are very interesting. And I recommend anyone who reads this post to look for her poems on the internet.

Sara Teasdale circa~1913

There Will Come Soft Rains

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; 

And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

The Subject of this poem imagines nature reclaiming the earth after humanity has been wiped out by a war.

Isn't the poem just wonderful! This is one of my most favorite poems. For further reading about Sara Teasdale please visit http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/658 

And for Dimension X episodes, just search for OTR Dimension X on the google search engine and visit archive.org website to download freely.

Seeya Up the Road!

Navjot