Ghosts from Mississippi

I believe in the soul, my husband's strong shoulders. I believe in my kids' uncontainable laughter, a clean shaven face, I believe the smell of autumn, the grove on game day, Oxford any day. I believe in football, power foods, champagne any day, Avett Brothers' music. I believe NYC is a great city, the wearing of pearls is really theraputic, the genius of Tim Keller, the heart of Corrie Tin Boom, slow Saturdays. I believe conspiracy was involved in the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, and JFK, the old traditional culture of golf, girls with freckles, cowboy boots that go with everything. I believe in pink, the beach, riding bikes, acoustic guitars and banjos. I believe Mississippi will always feel like home. I believe in long, soft, kisses that last forever, the kind that make my clothes fall off. I believe in amazing grace sounds better sung with a southern accent.

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Setter with Duck, Percival Leonard Rosseau, 1859-1937

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Highclere Castle‏ yesterday with orange sky and red sun from Hurricane Ophelia.

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Highclere Castle‏ yesterday with orange sky and red sun from Hurricane Ophelia.

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Beatrix Potter’s illustration, 1893

 'Three Mice seated at a table about to devour a Christmas pudding’

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Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, loosely based on P. L. Travers’ book series Mary Poppins. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in the role of Mary Poppins who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family’s dynamic. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. The film was shot entirely at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California using painted London background scenes.

Mary Poppins was released on August 27, 1964, to universal acclaim, receiving a total of thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture – an unsurpassed record for any other film released by Walt Disney Studios – and won five; Best Actress for Andrews, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Song for “Chim Chim Cher-ee”. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Mary Poppins is widely considered to be Walt Disney’s “crowning achievement”, being his only film to garner a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars in his lifetime.

Mary Poppins is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time and Walt Disney’s “crowning achievement”. It was the only film of Disney’s to garner a “Best Picture” nomination at the Oscars in his lifetime.

The film also inspired the eighth-season episode of The Simpsons entitled “[ Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious”, featuring a parody of Mary called “Shary Bobbins” who helps out the Simpson family after Marge loses her hair due to stress, and spoofs of the songs “The Perfect Nanny”, “A Spoonful of Sugar”, “Feed The Birds” and “The Life I Lead”.

Never at ease with the handling of her property by Disney or the way she felt she had been treated, Travers would never again agree to another Poppins/Disney adaptation. So fervent was Travers’ dislike of the Disney adaptation and of the way she felt she had been treated during the production, that when producer Cameron Mackintosh approached her about the stage musical in the 1990s, she acquiesced on the condition that only English-born writers and no one from the film production were to be directly involved with creating the stage musical.

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Beatrix Potter’s illustration, 1893

 'Three Mice seated at a table about to devour a Christmas pudding’

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Cheese, Wine and Bread. by Joe deSousa Via Flickr:

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Beatrix Potter’s Jeremy Fisher!