tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825055425170299721.post6224285196065224062..comments2024-03-20T16:34:04.414-04:00Comments on Alex Zorach's Tea Blog: First Impressions Can Be Wrong: a Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-heronAlex Zorachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08335878680429494039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825055425170299721.post-81809483631103222232012-07-03T05:35:20.223-04:002012-07-03T05:35:20.223-04:00I love this post too, Alex, and although my reply ...I love this post too, Alex, and although my reply is not going to be very profound I will nevetheless answer your question.<br /><br />I am American and my husband is British. I have been an Anglophile as long as I can remember and so I felt I had a 'pretty good handle' on the British culture. I had my favourite British television programmes, singers, actors, books, etc., but of course, not actually BEING British meant that I only had a cursory introduction to these things.<br /><br />There is a very, very well known comedy actor over here - no longer living - and everyone loves him. I like comedy as much as the next person, but I just could *not* get into his films. I thought they were silly and stupid and for the life of me could not understand the attraction. I wrote him off.<br /><br />But yet there his name continued to pop up ... old television interviews, "Top 10" specials - anytime the history of British comedy was talked about, so was he.<br /><br />I started paying a bit more attention and actually watched some of those shows. Finally, I watched several documentarys about this man, the real man, who he was, his difficult childhood, his sad marriage and the penny dropped. Yes, the British people love this man's comedy but more importantly, they love HIM. As a person. And once I started to look at him as a real person, knowing what I now knew about the type of man he was, I totally - and I do mean totally - began to appreciate his comedy because I knew 'where he was coming from'.<br /><br />I'm sure there's a life lesson in all of this but as I sit here on a dreary, overcast rainy morning in Surrey, England eating my toast and drinking my first cup of tea of the day, I am at a loss to dig it out. <br /><br />Perhaps I need a Norman Wisdom comedy to lighten the mood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825055425170299721.post-44378103132369413702012-07-02T11:24:25.486-04:002012-07-02T11:24:25.486-04:00Alex - I love this post! I find that when I atten...Alex - I love this post! I find that when I attend a professional development course, if my first impression is that "I already know this stuff" - I am not serving myself well. There is always something for me to learn when I am open, and the same holds true with each steeping of tea.Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05753205572837649406noreply@blogger.com