Monthly Archives: November 2009

Finding Beauty in the Desolate

In the future, all plant life is dead, the sun no longer shines, there is constant rain and snow, it is cold and strangers are deadly. What keeps a person moving? What would keep you moving? These are the questions pondered in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road. Overall, the movie adaptation stays [...]
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Quotable: Lessons in Gratitude

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself [...]
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Lost in a Little Pond of Songs

One of the very first classes that I took in college for English was Introduction to Poetry. Until then, I liked poetry, but I wasn’t quite in love with it. That class started my love affair with poetry. The professor said that poetry was all around us and oftentimes, we didn’t even notice. For example, music [...]
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The Never Ending Cling On Date

While returning home from work, Sookie Stackhouse finds a naked vampire running through the woods. Sookie stops to help the guy out and is shocked when she sees that it is an amnesiac Eric. Normally, Sookie doesn’t particularly care for Eric, but the Eric with no memory is far nicer than the one always trying [...]
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Those Sighing, Giggling Women

New Moon was everything that I expected it to be and maybe a little more. There was lots of scenes of boys with their shirts off, corny kissing scenes, lots of furrowed brows accompanied with longing looks, some more weirdo vampires with freakish eyes, big bad wolves and, lastly, lots of giggling teenage girls in [...]
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