tributes......

ok, so the media is clogged these days with looking-back stories.....about the victims of the comair crash, katrina, 9-11.......but i choose to look back farther still......to the recent 10th anniversary of the passing of lady di....aka princess di......a singular death in our minds despite the reality that she was in a car crash that also took out others along with her.......an article from britain that i read just this morning spoke to diana's lack of a legacy......no books written by her.....only about her........the money collected for her foundation hasn't appeared to have been managed well....nor spent on visible and/or meaningful projects........the monarchy survives without her.....and the question was asked....why do we still care?......possibly because she will always be young and beautiful in our memories, walking with mother theresa or through landmine fields or holding aids babies.......she will never grow old nor plump nor cantankerous......and therefore all current and future diana wannabes will pale before her gilded memory of everything one could aspire to be if only had those looks, financial resources, and royal connections.....and it is the if-only part that makes no sense in this fairy tale......none of us will ever have that.....it is only in our musings that any of us could live out the diana dream......but yet there is that tiny glimmer of hope that somehow fate will bless us with the opportunity to live the fantasy......and it is on these anniveraries that we are reminded of the hopes that we must not let die along with diana......