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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2002
Movie Reviews
Linda and I went to see three movies Saturday (legally since Linda won’t sneak into them at multiplexes like I do sometimes). I rationalize this by buying food since that’s how the movie theaters make money. They only get a small percentage of the ticket sales. OK, OK, I know it's wrong! Actually 98% of the time I pay to see one movie and buy popcorn and a drink. Really! We saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Bourne Identity, and Windtalkers and ate at Calypso before the movie at 100 Oaks. I always like what they have at Calypso.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding was really funny and entertaining. I liked it and laughed out loud many times. Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks were two of the producers. John Corbett was in it and always good to watch. His character on Northern Exposure was neat, and of course he played Aidan the Perfect Boyfriend on Sex and the City.
The Bourne Identity had some really pretty shots in it of Paris and Switzerland and was good. Matt Damon did well and it was suspenseful but not as good as it could have been somehow.
Windtalkers was really difficult to watch. I’m not a war movie fan but wanted to see this one and am glad I did. Special effects are too good now which make those battle scenes much too gory. I cringed through all of them, and some scenes will stick with me. Adam Beach and Roger Willie did really well playing the Navajo Code Talkers. Willie is Navajo but Beach isn’t. I read that the movie producers asked and got permission from the Navajo Nation for Beach to play a Navajo. The bigot in the movie who picked on Beach's character was Southern. Most poorly-dressed ignorant fools in movies and on TV are from the South. Hollywood changed the Muslim terrorists from Tom Clancy's book to Neo-Nazis in The Sum of All Fears so they wouldn't offend anyone. They don't seem to mind offending Southerners though. Off my soapbox now.
12:00:00 AM
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