Disney and Grocery Money

"There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly." Jon Favreau Disney and Grocery Money When a director picks a … Continue reading Disney and Grocery Money →

Starting with Clapton

"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius." Amy Poehler Starting … Continue reading Starting with Clapton →

Do You Have Mystery In Your Life?

Originally, the was posted at http://www.profoundliving.live. I love the question and thought I'd drop it here too. So here goes: http://www.profoundliving.live/do-you-have-mystery-in-your-life

Dead Poet’s Society Redux

"Oh Captain, My Captain" Professor Keating surely pushed the boundaries at Welton Academy, didn’t he? We all know this story, don’t we? It’s fictional, found in the movie The Dead Poet’s Society, but in it we see the courage of teachers who will simply not be confined to soul-sucking constraints, mustn’t we? Welton is conservative, … Continue reading Dead Poet’s Society Redux →

The Little Stories

"So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information." George Orwell The Little Stories Reading George Orwell's Why I Write, some excitement trembled when his description of … Continue reading The Little Stories →

Haiku

Haikus have lines of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and then 5 syllables). There are a number of benefits from writing them regularly. Here are some examples I have composed: I've been to the mountaintop. Not so. A summit. Still, vast is the view. A backyard playground. Laughing dogs, barking kids. Now...still. Broken home. … Continue reading Haiku →

Make The Presidency Great Again

“In 1664, Louis the Fourteen, in his own efforts to encourage the arts, donned brilliant tights and played in a drama called Furious Roland before a happy court. Moreover, he drafted the highest officers of his administration for the play so that, according to an account, all clad in brilliant tights themselves, they passed before … Continue reading Make The Presidency Great Again →

My Strange Family

"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty." Jeff Foxworthy My Strange Family Of course, everyone's family … Continue reading My Strange Family →

Beware of Reverence

“They were gods of the highest standing and dignity—gods of civilized peoples—worshiped and believed in by millions. All were theoretically omnipotent, omniscient, and immortal. And all are dead.” ~H. L. Mencken, “In Memoriam”, (In Hitchens, 2007, p. 146) I place my hope and my heart into my experience and my observation of reverence. Reverential living is … Continue reading Beware of Reverence →

Ruggles and the Equality of Man

"Oh, no. Always bring the pot to the kettle - never bring the kettle to the pot." Ruggles Ruggles and the Equality of Man Ruggles of Red Gap is light comedy starring the great Charles Laughton. Screened in 1935, it was nominated for a best picture Oscar. We don't see it much on cable. The … Continue reading Ruggles and the Equality of Man →