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.