I think we may be failing to teach Sevi how effort can be identified with pleasure. This isn’t surprising, since it’s a lesson we ourselves could learn better, or I could certainly. There’s a negative reinforcing going on, probably here at home, and I’m guessing it carries over into school. She feels inadequate to a…
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is all the ragerunning through rackety hallwayshollering madslamming doorsshrieking get me therescrapingbumping awkwardsmartsshameall alonedon’t stop for a secondyou’re sorelostget with itor out
Read moreDissection of Anger
It has two parts, always:1. Injury2. Desire for retribution.
Read moreJanus Collection – 50 yrs DVDs
• ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938), Sergei Eisenstein • ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958), Andrzej Wajda • L’AVVENTURA (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni • BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (1959), Grigori Chukhrai • BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946), Jean Cocteau • BLACK ORPHEUS (1959), Marcel Camus • BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945), David Lean • THE FALLEN IDOL (1948), Carol Reed • FIRES…
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The dead bodySloughed off like a costumeGrins unaccountablyAll he convinced you ofWritten there, but silly, dangling…You’re the one holding the bag.
Read moreMovie: Little Children
Good performances, great unfold of the plot, shots and cutting all their own and effective. Only toward the end did I start to feel the contrivance. The first I felt it was in one particular shot, a medium shot with the belligerent friend and his megaphone at night in the front yard with the addled…
Read moreRevkin’s comment back
Kevin, to my mind, has hit the nail on the head. Faced with a trajectory toward risks on a global scale, but without hard evidence, is it possible for humans to adjust current behaviors and investments to protect generations yet unborn? Not clear at all yet that this is possible. In fact, that’s the question…
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All of these who grandstandAbout world peaceIn the event of world peaceMight be doing less laudatory thingsTrueBut that’s not an advertisement for warNor to impugn the employment
Read moreThe Preocuppied Piper
Vita
Vita brevaArs bubbleWhilst EarthWobblesThrowing offVita
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