I just finished listening to, The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop. I am a ‘Gilmore Girls’ fan. I have watched the series more times than I can count – with each of my daughters together and separately over and over again. We laugh, we cry, we sing the theme song, and we talk about how empowered we feel with the strong and fast moving dialect from the female leads of the show.
I was thrilled to download Kelly Bishop’s book.
How disappointed I was at first because her narrative was a story, not about my beloved series, but about her life.
It was her story about dancing and her love for dancing. It was about taking any part she could get on and off Broadway so she could dance. It was a story about the foibles and mishaps of living in big cities and taking small parts to make a living.
Her story was about her relationships with friends, foes, fellow dancers, and loves – and if I am honest it was these stories that drew me.
The story was not what I wanted or expected but was what I needed. Our stories connected. I leave you with these nuggets, thanks to Kelly Bishop.
“There’s a lot more to being human than this finite, mundane, earthbound world we live in, that we’re really part of a much greater cosmic whole that’s all around us.”
“I don’t think about the many times I fell nearly as often as I think about the many times I got back up.”
“Don’t cry because you think your best days are gone. Smile because you had them in the first place.”
~Lydia Patrick
