Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson (born Friederike Victoria Gessner; 20 January 1910, Opava – 3 January 1980 Shaba National Reserve) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa.Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.
Adamson was born to Victor and Traute Gessner in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic), the second of three daughters. Her parents divorced when she was 10, and she went to live with her grandmother. In her autobiography The Searching Spirit, Adamson wrote about her grandmother, saying, "It is to her I owe anything that may be good in me". As a young adult, Adamson considered careers as a concert pianist, and in medicine
Elsa and her cubs
Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. In 1956, Joy's 3rd husband, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden. George later realized the lioness was just protecting her cubs, which were found nearby in a rocky crevice. Taking them home, Joy and George found it difficult to care for the all the cubs needs. The two largest cubs, named "Big One" and "Lustica" were passed on to be cared for by a zoo in Rotterdam, and the smallest "Elsa" was raised by the couple and their pet rock hyrax, Pati-Pati.
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Wishing Well
by: Jo Dee MessinaHey, ooh
Here goes another day, a hug and a kiss
And we're on our way
A cup of coffee for the road
Baby, I can't wait to get back home
We juggle all our hopes dreams
With a million responsibilities
Now and then we drop the ball
We lean sometimes but we never fall
Look at me, look at you, look at all that we've been through
With a lot of love and a little luck
So far it's been so good, cross your fingers, knock on wood, and pray
And if it helps go and throw a dollar in the wishing well
It ain't always laughs and smiles
But the carousel just ain't our style
The roller coaster suits us fine
Boy the ups and downs livin' up the ride
Look at me, look at you, look at all that we've been through
With a lot of love and a little luck
So far it's been so good, cross your fingers, knock on wood, and pray
Oh, and if it helps go and throw a dollar in the wishing well
Oh, let a hundred pennies fall
Splash and send up all our dreams to heaven, oh, oh
Look at me, look at you, look at all that we've been through
With a lot of love and a little luck
So far it's been so good, cross your fingers, knock on wood and pray
Oh, and if it helps, throw a dollar in the wishing
Throw another dollar in the wishing, throw a dollar in the wishing well
Oh, oh, in the wishing well, oh
(Wishing well)