I've been sick in bed for the last three days...and during one of my brief ventures out to eat, I watched a short documentary on HBO about Helen Thomas. It's playing "On Demand" and I strongly encourage you all to watch it. I've known who she was for most of my adult life but never knew her personal story. The film was an eye-opener.
Here is a clip I found from a recent interview with her that gives a peek into some of the material she shared in the HBO film:
Helen is living proof of how someone can be rational and passionate, able to straddle the apparent gap between them. For 57 years she was a reporter and believes she never revealed her liberal bias. Now she is a columnist for Hearst, and she is free to say, in print, exactly how she feels about people and issues.
She confesses in both the film and the above interview, that she has always had opinions, that she is passionate, a liberal, and has gone her own way. She blazed a trail in journalism for women, never had a family, married at 51, and was/and is totally dedicated to her career of asking hard questions.
Helen Thomas is a role model for all of us. At 88, she inspires me to believe that at 60, I still have much to contribute in the years ahead. She has survived hate mail, Bill O'Reilley, and George Bush. She supports Obama, but is skeptical and prepared to ask him hard questions as well. She may be a liberal, but she doesn't suspend her critical thinking skills to be one.
Here's hoping she will be blessed with many more years to share her public commentary. She is a model of positive aging, living by one's ideals, and the benefit of passion and purpose.
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