Thursday, February 11, 2010

My double life

Remember how I said I used to be in that medieval group? Every once in a while someone comes looking for me on Facebook and yesterday it was one of my ladies-in-waiting.

Let me tell you, it is great to get a message saying, "It's Elizabeth, your lady-in-waiting!"

That is good for a person!

That is a picture up above of me and Elizabeth, my lady-in-waiting, back in the day. I am on the left and she is on the right. I smiled happily as I confirmed the friendship because every once in a while I forget that I am royalty.

Not often, but sometimes.

That same day I got a package from California and it was from Leonard Pennario's brother. He sent me a CD of Pennario playing the piano concerto by Miklos Rozsa with the Milwaukee Symphony and that was something beautiful that made my day.

"This is a little surprise for you," he wrote. "I'll tell you about it the next time we talk."

Hahahahaha!

We never talk!

That was the joke and I loved it. It sounds like something I would write. Perhaps I will call him.

On second thought maybe I will have my lady-in-waiting do it.

Elizabeth, my lady-in-waiting.

6 comments:

Daryle P said...

I was just thinking, the other day, how Jhryn and I were going to sing The Beatles' "Her Majesty" to you at your coronation. As you'll recall, the repercussions of his infidelity put the kabosh on that.

half said...

i was just thinking the same thing as well

Prof. G said...

I would like to quote John Field, a great pianist of the past. He declined a court pianist title with the following: "The court is not for me and I do not know how to pay court to it."

Larry said...

I am losing it!

Mary Kunz Goldman said...

Daryle, the "Her Majesty" thing, I would have died laughing! And the repercussions of his infidelity.. hahahahahahaa

Mary Kunz Goldman said...

And Prof., what an elegant quote from John Field. You get such an image of the man.