Hi there. I'm Diane.
We're cell. Also known as silver
disobedience. And today for this video, I'm
going to add a little before I get into the reading for my book
because I'm going to talk about my really cool.
Lucite earrings that are going to be given away to somebody
this week and one of the giveaways to my followers, And
I'm going to talk about my very high neck.
I've always liked High necks and that's even before.
I felt like I needed them when my neck got a little Holder for
lack of better word and I've always liked to but not my
collar all the way to the top and then add a fun necklace
underneath to create. I don't know, I don't know what
you call that a little peek at something different and I'm
going to go old vintage. I think I bought this.
When I first moved to the city, it's an old Dolce & Gabbana
shirt. That's got to be close to 20
years old. But I always loved tuxedo shirts
because they always made me feel a little fancy.
So today, I want to read a section in my book about things,
not going according to plans. Now, any of you who have
followed me for a while, may know I have not had, I have had
a plane crash. In fact I didn't have just one
plane crash. I had a second year later.
And about eight years after that, I had a third in between
all that, I had what you call an incident, if you're with the
FAA, which is a crash to anybody who's been in the incident.
But to the FAA, they call it an incident.
So I want to read to you because a lot of life is not going
according to plan these days about life not a going according
to plan, I'm reading from my book, The Silver to speed Ian's
Playbook. This is me.
And I don't have on hot pink eyeshadow, which I wanted to
wear because I want to just change things up.
I decided for these future readings, I'm going to dress up
and have fun like I do when I'm on set because I am also a model
with wilhemina, which is a very great privilege in my life that
didn't happen till I was 57. But man, I appreciate it and I
really miss it right now because it's really fun to be on set
with all the Fantastic people that you get to me.
But today, I'm reading about life, fun, not always, according
to plan. Now, I have to kind of wreck my
outfit a little and put on my glasses, please don't perfectly
match, but they're the only ones I have handy.
Plans don't always go the way we plan on October 10th 1981.
I went flying in a small plane for the first time in my life
our flight plan was to take off from the airport and fly only
about 73 land miles to have breakfast in Montauk.
The very end of Long Island, which is as close as you can get
to England. It was a sunny morning in New
York. Well, enjoying the views from
the sky. Over the Westhampton Shoreline
it suddenly got very quiet. The pilot who was the only other
person in the plane. Besides me very softly said, oh,
You can guess what? That word was.
By the time he calmly said at the third time, I understood the
sudden silence was not just the peaceful Skies.
The engine of the plane had failed.
Keeping us. Cool.
The pilot quickly gave me a job to do with some simple
instructions. I followed his structions very
carefully as I thought about the moments, in my life in very
rapid succession. I also remember thinking that
moment. The time wouldn't be so bad.
I didn't feel like I owed anyone, any big apologies.
But I did wish I could have told my parents and a couple of other
people that I really love them. At the time this was happening.
I was 20 years old. I did feel peaceful.
As the pilot search for a place to land.
I remember following his instructions and my mind just
clicking away on moments of my life and deciding if it was my
time to go, that would be okay. Ultimately, we landed in
airstrip in at the Westhampton Air Force Base.
The pilot actually made an amazing Landing yet the front
wheel of the plane. Came down over the front wheel
cracked off. And so it caused the propeller
to hit brush. That was about thigh high and it
got tangled in that brush. So the plane flipped yet, we
both walked away. Thanks to him staying very calm
under pressure and to a very responsive United States Air
Force crew. That immediately came to our
rescue. So why am I telling you this?
Life does not always go according to plan.
Sometimes you can have whopping crashes, crashes that you
created and crashes that you have nothing to do with it, but
you just have to deal with. yet, hopefully, if we get to live, We
can figure out new routes new ways.
New ways to go on with living and although that crash was 20
years ago. 20 years ago, excuse me, 20 years ago, I was 20 x.
Let me correct that I was 20. I'm 60 now.
So it was 40 years ago. I remember it vividly and I'm so
glad I got to live those next 40 years because I got a lot
happened. And it's all been good.
It hasn't always been perfect. Let me assure you of that.
But overall it's been far better than the alternative which is
why I'm grateful to be aging and getting older and facing
whatever it is we're all facing. So, I just want to thank you
again. I'm Diane gracel.
I'm also known as silver to speed Ian's.
I'm the author of the silver dispute, Ian's Playbook, I blog
everyday. I write about what I think about
what I feel, what I feel deeply in my heart and I want to share
their my meditations. I don't have it all down.
I don't have it all. Perfect.
I Stumble all the time. But you know what?
I get up the next day and I'm enthusiastic about trying again.
And so if you feel that way even just a little, I hope you start
to join me on this journey because I love the conversation.
We're having having thank you very much.
Again, Diane gracel, also known as silver disobedience.