Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2002. It was Mattie's first Christmas with us and it was a special time in our lives, as Mattie filled our world with adventure, challenges, and much joy. I will never forget his reindeer pajama and the charm and innocence that this photo captured.
Quote of the day: Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? ~ It's a Wonderful Life
I started the day out slowly because I am thoroughly exhausted. But by 8am, I dragged myself out of bed because unless I get it moving, nothing can get accomplished in my household. Like yesterday, today was another crime scene. This time it took place in the shower. My dad had a massive bowel movement, and he used his shower wand to spread it around the entire shower. It looked like a horrific crime scene. There are many issues with this behavior but the beauty of my dad's dementia is that seconds later he has NO KNOWLEDGE that he created this mess. I mean his mind is a complete blank! I have a whole strategy of what he can do in the shower if he needs to go the bathroom (because he can't move quickly and safely enough from the shower to the toilet), but unless verbally cued step by step, he can't sequentially think through problems himself. Needless to say, I had another very large clean up job this morning.
While I was getting dressed this morning, I was listening to the radio. Have you been following the controversy of the removal of 22 minutes from the classic, It's a Wonderful Life? I attached an article so you could read more about it, but due to copyrighting issues, some companies are now streaming this abridged version. Here are the key facts, as they appear in the article:
- In 1974, the distributor failed to renew the movie’s copyright, sending “It’s a Wonderful Life” into the public domain. For nearly two decades, television stations freely aired the film — especially during the holidays — without paying royalties.
- While the film itself had fallen into the public domain, the rights to two underlying elements had been properly maintained: the original short story “The Greatest Gift,” by Philip Van Doren Stern, and the musical score by Dimitri Timokin.
- Republic Pictures, later acquired by Paramount, used those copyrights to effectively reclaim control over the movie’s distribution, arguing that any exhibition of the film required licensing the copyrighted story and music.
- The “Pottersville” sequence is the portion most directly adapted from Stern’s story.
- Legal experts say the abridged version appears to be a workaround — by removing that specific sequence, distributors may have believed they could avoid infringing on the short story’s copyright while still offering a version of the film.
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