9 March 2002
Subject: 50 Years Ago
Dear Ones,
I was reading somewhere the other day that Andy Warhol, the
man who turned the tomato can into an art form, would have been 70 years old
this month. Warhol, as you remember, was, also, the man who coined the phrase
“15 minutes of fame” on the college lecture circuit in the 1960's.
Although this Pop art superstar has been dead for 35 years,
his famous quote,
“in the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”, lives on. When
Warhol made that statement, I had no idea that it might one day apply to
someone as obscure as my darling wife, Leavon.
Well, was I ever wrong! Not only has Leavon had her 15
minutes of fame, in fact, she has had 30 minutes of being famous. I say 30
minutes of fame because she had the same 15 minutes of fame twice in her
lifetime. Mind you, not the "world-famous" kind of fame, but fame that
was spread over the greater part of "our world"-- Southwest Louisiana.
It happened like this. We walked into church one Sunday
morning and a sweet, little old lady approached Leavon with this remark,
"Leavon, I read in the newspaper where you had a piano recital".
"What, was that?" Leavon answered, somewhat puzzled at the lady's
comments. "I read that you performed at a piano recital" the lady
continued, "Was it last week?" Leavon burst out into laughter.
"My goodness, no, it wasn't last week. You must have read that in the
"50 Years Ago" column." We, then, all had a good laugh at the
lady's expense upon her realizing that she hadn't noticed the column heading.
On the way home, I told Leavon that not only did she have
her 15 minutes of fame that evening those many years ago, but now she could
relive her outstanding concert performance in another 15 minutes of glory thanks
to a little, old lady with exceedingly poor eyesight.
Have a GREAT Saturday and may you find your 15 minutes of
fame as fun as folks do in this household.
Blessings!!
Don
P. S.
It happened again this past week. Leavon made
the "50 Years Ago" column with an article about her as Class President
being elected the Editor of her high school newspaper. This time, everyone
around read the article and brought it to her attention. You just can't imagine
how difficult it is to live in the same house with a "true"
celebrity.
