Saturday, April 21, 2007
The Wild Trees are not wild at all; merely whole life
You are most likely already aware of the book, The Wild Trees by Richard Preston? If you aren't, I thought perhaps you might enjoy it. I am out of the war stories for a while. Twain's Battle Hymn and his snippet "On War" jostled me back into the reality that the story remains the same - we merely change costumes for the time and place which we choose to play on this stage.
Preston's book brought me back into my meditative days in the Berkshire (the ultimate flavor of this time of my life) where the vegetation speaks and awareness is that everything reverberates off of one another. "The whole picture" perspective. I thought I'd share.
Peace
Preston's book brought me back into my meditative days in the Berkshire (the ultimate flavor of this time of my life) where the vegetation speaks and awareness is that everything reverberates off of one another. "The whole picture" perspective. I thought I'd share.
Peace
Friday, April 06, 2007
Bend it Like Beckham
When I saw this film I couldn't understand why it wasn't as successful as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and then I remembered how our biases influence our acceptances and rejections. In the book The Secret Life of Plants the authors informed their readers as to who really invented the radio, an Indian (from the real India), but Western Europe couldn't acknowledge this truth because it would illustrate whitey wasn't superior, so the credit went to Marconi....so take the big leap and dig the Indian culture and realize how similar our families truly are. Me? I'm Italian-American and I could relate to both Bend it Like Beckham and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Impossible? - try it on for size and see if it fits...but first you must admit who you really are.
