merlinjones
12-05-2001, 06:26 AM
Happy 100th Birthday, Walter Elias Disney!
Thanks for the many hours of entertainment, escape, enlightenment, laughter, comfort and inspiration.
As a child, I learned alot from your body of work. In front of the television for Wonderful World of Color or in my regular seat for a theatre matinee, the world opened up larger and more brightly to me.
Thanks for introducing me to ideas: the world's classic literature, folk-tales, historical figures, populist philosophies, futurism, nostaglia, nature and homespun wisdom.
Thanks for introducing me to ideas of art and music: color, style, design, acting, caricature, and always with the finest taste. Thanks for your eye for talent.
Thanks for retaining your inner child and sharing your toys with the world. Thanks for being shrewd and competitive enough to make it happen against all odds. Thanks for resisting the allure of easy money. Thanks for being stubborn. Thanks for being a big kid.
Thanks for your your intuition of the human spirit. Thanks for being a riveting storyteller.
Thanks for reassuring us that dreams are possible, that transformations can happen, that the little man can triumph, that the child is wiser than the adult, that we can laugh at ourselves, that good will triumph over evil, that belief and a pure heart can overcome all obstacles.
Thanks for being a visionary of the people, an artist, a patriot, a farmboy, a willful child. Thanks for being one of us and winning for our team.
Thanks for providing hope and inspiration through your uncompromised body of work, even thirty five years after your death.
I will always admire you and what the will of one man was able to acheive.
Thanks for the many hours of entertainment, escape, enlightenment, laughter, comfort and inspiration.
As a child, I learned alot from your body of work. In front of the television for Wonderful World of Color or in my regular seat for a theatre matinee, the world opened up larger and more brightly to me.
Thanks for introducing me to ideas: the world's classic literature, folk-tales, historical figures, populist philosophies, futurism, nostaglia, nature and homespun wisdom.
Thanks for introducing me to ideas of art and music: color, style, design, acting, caricature, and always with the finest taste. Thanks for your eye for talent.
Thanks for retaining your inner child and sharing your toys with the world. Thanks for being shrewd and competitive enough to make it happen against all odds. Thanks for resisting the allure of easy money. Thanks for being stubborn. Thanks for being a big kid.
Thanks for your your intuition of the human spirit. Thanks for being a riveting storyteller.
Thanks for reassuring us that dreams are possible, that transformations can happen, that the little man can triumph, that the child is wiser than the adult, that we can laugh at ourselves, that good will triumph over evil, that belief and a pure heart can overcome all obstacles.
Thanks for being a visionary of the people, an artist, a patriot, a farmboy, a willful child. Thanks for being one of us and winning for our team.
Thanks for providing hope and inspiration through your uncompromised body of work, even thirty five years after your death.
I will always admire you and what the will of one man was able to acheive.