Look closely, "The words of the prophets are written in the Subway walls."
--Simon and Garfunkle
Who Are We Really?
We are little spark plugs, but maybe not running at full capacity.
And an egomaniac who lives in the White House is running amok on my computer. Now he is threatening to take away elections. What? What? What? What? What?!
I was on my way here to talk about a movie when I ran into that.
It’s hard to have fun anymore.
But look-it here, we have some clever people in our country.
The movie?
Oh yeah. My first though was to skip it. I was prepared not to like it. A review said that, while they found the acting excellent, they didn’t like the movie. And notice that the first Wicked movie received 10 Academy Award nominations, while WICKED for good received none.
YET THAT MOVIE WAS SPOT ON.
It so accurately depicted our present state, you would think it was written for us specifically, yet it was published in 1995. I can’t believe it.
The two principal players, Cynthia Erivo (the witch) and Aviana Grande (Glinda), were superb, and the casting of Jeff Goldblum was genius. His performance was genius. That speech seemed written for Goldblum—and for now.
No more, go see it.
“We must be willing, individually and as a nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is what perseverance and dedication looks like:
