Do you remember Elliott, the little boy in “ET”? Towards the end of the story, he and the eponymous extraterrestrial are being chased by the police and take flight… on board a bicycle… That moment became the film poster’s iconic image.
The pram depicted above ideally belongs to a baby who was born two years before Spielberg’s masterpiece and who, rather than learn to walk, began embarking on continuous “Pindaric flights”. Certainly ,after forty-one years of such ‘take-offs’, its hair has gone a bit salt-and-pepper, in the same way as these leaves are no longer bright green. But they who fly on the wings of imagination remain children at heart, regardless of their age: time has gone by, but the content hasn’t changed. It’s been a time filled with dreams, because each individual life has its own signature design, and designing is what we do for a living.
We consider it a privilege, one that we wish to continue nurturing, so we’re celebrating our birthday by drawing a beautiful rainbow in the sky, as in the final frames of “ET”: it expresses how grateful we are for your affection, and implicitly (and “terrestrially”) is wishing you all a lovely day…
Many happy returns, Inarea!
Name Day:
St Chrysogonus