This list kills me, reminds me. focuses me, shuts me up, angers me, softens me, and inspires me to grab life and wring every last drop out of it. It forces me to look at the time I have wasted and vow to never waste any more. I love Nora Ephron for so many reasons, but this list is what I think about most when I think about her:
The great Nora Ephron passed away this year, aged 71, following a battle with leukemia that began in 2006. She had many strings to her bow, but most notably wrote the screenplays to some of the best loved films ever to grace the big screen, many of which she also directed and produced. She wrote the following lists — of things she won’t and will miss — in 2010 and used them to close her book, I Remember Nothing.
(Source: “I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections” by Nora Ephron)
What I Won’t Miss
- Dry skin
- Bad dinners like the one we went to last night
- Technology in general
- My closet
- Washing my hair
- Bras
- Funerals
- Illness everywhere
- Polls that show that 32 percent of the American people believe in creationism
- Polls
- Fox TV
- The collapse of the dollar
- Bar mitzvahs
- Mammograms
- Dead flowers
- The sound of the vacuum cleaner
- Bills
- E-mail. I know I already said it, but I want to emphasize it.
- Small print
- Panels on Women in Film
- Taking off makeup every night
What I Will Miss
- My kids
- Nick
- Spring
- Fall
- Waffles
- The concept of waffles
- Bacon
- A walk in the park
- The idea of a walk in the park
- The park
- Shakespeare in the Park
- The bed
- Reading in bed
- Fireworks
- Laughs
- The view out the window
- Twinkle lights
- Butter
- Dinner at home just the two of us
- Dinner with friends
- Dinner with friends in cities where none of us lives
- Paris
- Next year in Istanbul
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Christmas tree
- Thanksgiving dinner
- One for the table
- The dogwood
- Taking a bath
- Coming over the bridge to Manhattan
- Pie
via Lists of Note.
