Go see this movie. What’s not to love about Diablo Cody. So nice to see she’s as smart as I suspected after seeing Juno. I can’t wait to see more from this bright light. Rock on Diablo Cody! You deserve every drop of goodness. Here’s some links to a couple interviews.
One in the Star Tribune. [...]
Archive for December, 2007
More on Diablo Cody: Juno
Posted in Check It Out, Entertainment, High 5, Movies, Need I Say More, Sharing, Things To Do in Minneapolis, Women on December 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Go see JUNO in theatres now
Posted in Check It Out, Entertainment, Movies, Sharing, Things To Do in Minneapolis, Women, tagged Entertainment, female characters, Juno, Minneapolis movie, Movies, Script, Women on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Walked in a snowstorm yesterday to see this movie—and I do it again in a heartbeat. Smart script, fantastic acting. and the intro graphics are amazing. Pay the ticket price and vote for more of these smart movies to be made. Strong and smart female characters (in the lead! yay…about time), honest male [...]
My Top Pick: Book of 2007
Posted in Books, Check It Out, Entertainment, High 5, Love, Need I Say More, Sharing on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Closing out the year I thought I’d share once again my favorite book this year, “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert.
This book is fantastic! A must read. I spent a weekend at a cabin in the woods with friends, closed up in my room reading this book because I couldn’t put it down (the walks [...]
Children See, Children Do: Karma Tube
Posted in Changing the world, Check It Out, Friends, High 5, How You See, Important, Need I Say More, Perspective, Rants, Road Rage, Seeing IS a verb, Sharing, Something to think about, What I see, World, family, links on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A friend sent this to me last week. High 5! Take a look and send on.
Why is it that certain behaviors deemed tolerable in adults are suddenly shocking when exhibited by children? This 90-second public service announcement by a nonprofit organization in Australia begs this very question–prompting any adult who watches to reconsider their [...]
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Posted in Blogging, Books, Perspective, Sharing, tagged alcoholic, Books, The Glass Castle, women writers, writer on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading this book. A must and fast, easy read. Here’s a copy of a post I did today on a blog written by CINDY BOKMA that offered a wonderful interview of the author Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle.
http://conversationsfamouswriters.blogspot.com/search?q=Glass+Castle
scroll down on Cindy’s blog–to Thursday, October 27, 2005
“Cindy–What a wonderfully written interview. [...]
Better is knowledge
Posted in Perspective, Poems & Quotations, Seeing IS a verb, Something to think about, Spirituality, What I see, World on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice (of religious ritual). Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results (of one’s actions), because there follows immediate peace.
-Bhagavad Gita 12:12
Ah, the surrender of attachment..this is a daily exercise. Not something we do once and never have to think of again. We [...]
An Impersonal Process
Posted in Perspective, Seeing IS a verb, Something to think about, Spirituality on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Your evolution beyond ego is an urgent matter. If you think you are interested in the evolution of consciousness, which means the evolution of the creative process itself, the truth is you don’t have an infinite amount of time to get ready. The energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process is not really concerned [...]
