Post by ronprice on Jan 21, 2007 8:44:08 GMT
TOO FAST
In the years 1959 to 1962 comedian and film star Peter Sellers began receiving attention and success for his role in I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared (1959) as well as The Road To Hong Kong(1962). These were the same years I became a Bahá’í(1959) and entered the pioneering domain for the Bahá’í community(1962). Sellers' international stardom was assured in his two films of 1963: The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark.1 That year, 1963, was particularly significant for the Bahá’í community. It was the year of that blissful consummation, the elapsing of the 1290 days fixed by Daniel in the last chapter of His Book2 and the election of the Universal House of Justice. -Ron Price with appreciation to 2Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, Wilmette, 1957, p.151 and 1"Living Famously: Peter Sellers," ABC TV, 21 Jan.2007,2:00-3:00 pm.
You were getting more money,
more laughs, more affairs, cars,
marriages and fame--the Kingdom
of God on Earth had only just begun.
You welcomed it in--little did you
know, little did anyone know, back
then when I was a child, in my teens
& twenties, playing baseball, trying
to put it all together in school, life,
romance--but without your fame,
money, laughs, only one marriage
and a few cheap cars. Peter, it all
came so fast for you, for me and for
all of humankind, too fast, too fast...
that blissful consummation came and
went and just about everyone missed it.
Ron Price
21 January 2007
In the years 1959 to 1962 comedian and film star Peter Sellers began receiving attention and success for his role in I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared (1959) as well as The Road To Hong Kong(1962). These were the same years I became a Bahá’í(1959) and entered the pioneering domain for the Bahá’í community(1962). Sellers' international stardom was assured in his two films of 1963: The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark.1 That year, 1963, was particularly significant for the Bahá’í community. It was the year of that blissful consummation, the elapsing of the 1290 days fixed by Daniel in the last chapter of His Book2 and the election of the Universal House of Justice. -Ron Price with appreciation to 2Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, Wilmette, 1957, p.151 and 1"Living Famously: Peter Sellers," ABC TV, 21 Jan.2007,2:00-3:00 pm.
You were getting more money,
more laughs, more affairs, cars,
marriages and fame--the Kingdom
of God on Earth had only just begun.
You welcomed it in--little did you
know, little did anyone know, back
then when I was a child, in my teens
& twenties, playing baseball, trying
to put it all together in school, life,
romance--but without your fame,
money, laughs, only one marriage
and a few cheap cars. Peter, it all
came so fast for you, for me and for
all of humankind, too fast, too fast...
that blissful consummation came and
went and just about everyone missed it.
Ron Price
21 January 2007
