My Mom got me my first Mother’s Day present this year, she purchased a movie on Xfinity for me then went to get her hair done. I have been thinking about this movie since hearing about the horses in the Kentucky Derby.
I remember reading about Will and Lou’s trip to the race track and I told my Mom that when I was reading this book that was the first time I’ve read from a perspective from someone who knows exactly what it feels like to be disabled.
My Mom and I were talking today and we pieced it together that we saw the movie together when it came out because I had read the book between teaching my classes and I vividly remember one when I was reading it, and it was in such a good part that I kept reading after the bell rang, and tears were welling in my eyes!
I remember telling my kids that you know that you are reading good writing when it evokes emotion, so I was not embarrassed that I was crying at all! It has been long enough since I saw this movie that I didn’t quite remember it but I knew that it was good. I’m glad that my Mom is not home yet because I am STILL crying!
I had seriously forgotten this song and I was taken back to teaching and my Barwis days! I was still driving back then when this song came out…: