1. Why do I do a link up on Friday when I have my own link up on Thursdays?
2. I know, it's Friday but....
3. Today, I have a piece over at Aleteia! It's on teaching forgiveness and my own two cents.
Here's the picture of the actual Forgiveness Jar.
4. How's the Book coming? Slow. Last week I was sick, I'm trying to get back into the swing of writing, but somehow, life keeps taking up more and more time. This week, I'm taking on Saint Teresa of Avila. I figure, I should share some sites I've found that are gems. This week's favorite is:
Order of the Carmelites.
Order of the Carmelites.
What I keep understanding as I pursue this project, is I am in the kiddie pool of understanding, they swim in the ocean.
5. What are you reading? I just got it, so I just started, but Elizabeth Scalia has a new book!
Thus far, I'm really enjoying it. I hope to review it next Friday...as part of keeping my brain from spinning toward its natural state of atrophy.
6. What else are you doing? In two weeks, we have a blockbuster weekend with Prom, Girls on the Run 5K and the Gaithersburg Book Festival! The past two years, I've gone. This year I'm helping with a booth. I hope next year...to present!
7. I am a geeky woman. I saw Captain America's Civil War. I enjoyed all of it the same way Stephen Greydamus does, like a pizza that tasted great going down, but I probably shouldn't have eaten so willingly.
After every movie, my husband and I do a wrap up, sort of like a post game review. What got me was, the writers chickened out. In the comic Civil War, the fight between Captain and Ironman has high stakes and high consequences. If the movie had been willing to allow those sort of consequences to happen to both sides, it would have made the pain between them that much more than a mere stake out of my side, your side. Superhero movies do have to rely on action and pop, so philosophical musings about the consequences of decisions, of releasing/holding onto power have to be done on the fly. As Falcon says, "most fights don't involve that much talking." However, I think the intimacy of the fight fell a little flat because there wasn't as much talking as one would want, to bring the audience into the Civil war with genuine torn loyalties.
After every movie, my husband and I do a wrap up, sort of like a post game review. What got me was, the writers chickened out. In the comic Civil War, the fight between Captain and Ironman has high stakes and high consequences. If the movie had been willing to allow those sort of consequences to happen to both sides, it would have made the pain between them that much more than a mere stake out of my side, your side. Superhero movies do have to rely on action and pop, so philosophical musings about the consequences of decisions, of releasing/holding onto power have to be done on the fly. As Falcon says, "most fights don't involve that much talking." However, I think the intimacy of the fight fell a little flat because there wasn't as much talking as one would want, to bring the audience into the Civil war with genuine torn loyalties.
The poster promises something I don't feel the movie quite delivers, the pain and break isn't as decisive or hard as it should be. It's more of a friendship sprain than a heart breaker. That being said, it was a fun popcorn date.
Talking it over with my husband, we have allowed as young as John to go see it, but I wouldn't let anyone younger.
See you Sunday. Now I have to go get some writing done. :)
2 comments:
I'm actually glad to hear it's not a heart breaker...I've been wincing in anticipation of this movie ever since I heard about it. I didn't realize it was out already though! Shows how out of touch I am. Or how busy...
That book looks excellent! I'm currently reading Kristin Lavransdatter Part II.... so good, so Catholic!
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