"Peggy Lipton, My First Crush"

Within the last two hours or so I've learned that Tim Conway (today), Doris Day (yesterday) and (ulp) PEGGY LIPTON (Saturday) have all passed away.  And no, I am NOT going to write another "Famous-People-Die-In-Groups-of-2-or-3-Because-God-Mercifully-Wants-Us-To-think-About-Our-Own-Mortality" blogs!!   Here's why.  A.) You guys don't BELIEVE me (Lol) and   B.) It's a THEORY that I cannot prove from SCRIPTURE.  But what I certainly AM going to write about is the death of PEGGY LIPTON as I remember her from "Mod Squad" 50 years ago.  Of the three of them, news of HER death hit me HARDEST.

At age 14, you see, Peggy Lipton was My First Crush.  She was absolutely LOVELY as the sweet and sensitive Julie Barnes...my teenage Hippie Heart went all a-flutter when I saw her on TV!! I recently bought Season 1 of that show ('68-'69), and when I did, I googled how she looked "today"...she looked pretty good, still!!  The sad thing is I didn't know anything about her, except that she married Quincy Jones, and I didn't LIKE anything about her except for her BEAUTY.

Pretty shallow....but then, I was only 14.

Her "Mod Squad" fellow cast members were good looking GUYS...Clarence Williams III (Linc)  was my main man!! ("Solid"!!)

Which leads me to the SECOND thing I have to say about Peggy Lipton.  I find it ironic to learn that on the day this beautiful woman died, Saturday, I wrote a blog about the LIMITS of "Outward Beauty." Here's a quote from my blog, written of course BEFORE I knew that My First Crush would die that very day...

"............a woman who is PROUD of her outward beauty (or a man who worships it) is not wise.  In 'Morning and Evening' just now, I read Spurgeon's words 'Remember....all the flowers in the world's garden fade by turns, and the day cometh when nothing will be left but black, cold earth.' I'm amazed when even DEAD female movie stars are idolized...do the folks who idolize them realize they are idolizing....dust??"

To read my ENTIRE blog, go here....
.http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/2019/05/outward-beauty-thoughts-for-mothers-day.html

In closing, I don't know what else to say about My First Crush, I really don't.  This being the third day since she passed, it's quite possible that Spurgeon's "black, cold earth" is becoming a tragic reality once again.

So...anyone want some Chetitorializing about why famous people die in groups of two or three??