There are two movies that I enjoyed that have to do with time travel (gets the little grey.cells
moving). These are older movies and can be rented at a library, but often are streaming.
The first is “About Time”. In this one you can travel back in time deliberately, but only in your lifetime. You can imagine what a young male teen would do with this? Very funny, but begs the question, what would you do if you could deliberately do an event over and how would it impact the rest of your life? All the folks I recommended this to enjoyed it.
The second is “Siding Doors”, where suddenly in one second your life splits into two paths, each with different endings running simultaneously. You had no control over this. Did you ever have something happen that changed your life dramatically? Did you ever wonder what would have happened if that incident didn’t happen? (Parallel timelines)
So I don’t think this is controversial, but might be fun.
If you haven’t seen Station 11, that series alone is worth a month of HBO. The same author (Emily St. John Mandel) has written several wonderful books including her most recent Sea of Tranquility. I won’t give away the story line because it unfolds so eloquently, but it relates to the topic you raised. The book was so good I finished it in just over a day. I’m heading to the library to pick up her first novel when I close my iPad.
My top HBO list: Hacks, The Staircase, Julia, The Gilded Age, The Righteous Gemstones, Raised By Wolves, GOT, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Succession, Made for Love, The Tourist, Westworld, The Nevers, Chornobyl, Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects….I could go on. And that’s just HBO, Apple and Amazon are cranking out some great stuff. Netflix is beginning to price themselves out like Showtime did.
Bill, you are so cool! If you don’t get it right the first time you are willing to keep on trying. Most people just give up. This community you have built functions well together, and I believe strongly in the perimeters you are setting. There are too many sites you can go to that
Are “free for all’s” with a lot of ugly stuff being said there. I do not want to be part of that
but this community regardless of our differences or similarities keeps it civil. It all starts from the top…. Thank you for the pic of the Big Hole, from now on every time I look at a blood orange I will see it. And can’t wait to get those glasses. To communicate, really communicate with someone I would not be able to normally is an amazing gift to the world.
I don't think the following is controversial. I don't think we should pit one minority against another but Native Americans often are left out of the news. There is a special spot in my heart for the group that was here first. I am so glad we now have our first Native American cabinet member, Deb Haaland, who in her short time here has already done much to elevate and publicize Native Americans. I have read that a full 40% of Americans do not believe that Natives even exist anymore. How would you feel if a large group of Americans did not even know your ethnic group existed? We never (and I don't use absolute terms often ) see Natives in TV ads. The last time I saw one was in the 1960s; that famous littering ad which depicted a Native American with tears running down his cheek. Natives have been in the news lately thanks to Deb Haaland publicizing the unspeakable tragedy of boarding schools as well as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. MMIW day was May 5th and I had to search to find anything on mainstream media about it. Does anyone know the month that is Native American Heritage month? Very little news on that one.
I established a scholarship endowment for enrolled Natives at my alma mater and in my own small way, trying to do what I can to help. This is my own passion, reading and learning much about the tragedies, broke treaties and the poverty that so many Natives endure today. We often speak about the need to educate children about Black history and slavery. Yes, do that but do not leave out Native history. Many parts of it are also very tragic and heartbreaking. I watched a recent interview featuring Secretary Haaland and she used the words "we Natives feel invisible and cancelled." Will we ever have a Native Supreme Court justice? Natives have a beautiful culture, they REVERE their elders and certain tribes have their own languages and traditions. I just finished a book "Stringing Rosaries" about the tragic Native boarding school situation.
I find this interesting as a parent of a child on the rolls and living in Oklahoma where the population of the state is heavily Native American of various tribes. Here it is very visibly locally, but having traveled a lot pre-pandemic for work I can see that is not the case nationally.
There is such a tumultuous history between the Indigenous peoples across the country (really the globe) and those who colonized the land. It is hard for people to face their past and I am sure it is much easier to pretend a group doesn't really exist than to put them front and center and talk with them.
First the sad:
The famous commercial you cited above is even sadder since the "native" actor who was known as Iron Eyes Cody was actually an Italian-American who pretended to be Native (pretty interesting reading about him out there).
Then the positives:
November is Native American Heritage Month
I am hopeful that the big screen adaptation of Killer of the Flower Moon (tragic true story of white greed and Osage murder in Oklahoma that helped found the FBI) with it's cast and presence may help to elevate Native American awareness and causes (also timed to come out in November!)
Thanks for this response. I have heard that Oklahoma does have a lot of Natives. In my home state of ND, we do have about 5 tribes and they are VISIBLE so that is one of the "problems" elsewhere as many Natives may be on reservations or in non-visible situations.
For those who have never seen the littering ad with the Italian "Native American" it is available and worth watching. Very grainy but still a good ad. I was raised in the era of "do not litter" and the Keep America Beautiful era and I am appalled when people throw stuff out their car window and I find it on the boulevard. Just makes me sick. Sorry for the digression.
I’m sorry. But of all the things to protest. Vegan “milk” up-charge at Starbucks. How would you even notice an up-charge at Starbucks?
Good to see the black hole. Well. I guess. Doesn’t that mean our planet will end up there someday if we don’t kill ourselves off beforehand? I’m a bit shaky on my astronomy and my math, I just know Starbucks coffee is really expensive! 😬
With a burr grinder, locally roasted coffee from a good roaster and an OXO 9 cup Barista Brain coffee make and I have an automatic pour over machine with really fresh coffee. That $13 12 oz bag off coffee gives us 10-12 days of 3+ full cups. The equipment amortizes out to 77¢/day over five years and the coffee to around 36¢ so we are enjoying coffee in our PJs for 33¢ a cup. Hey Starbucks: bye Felisha!
Are Ukrainian families being sent to the US? If so, where and how can we help them? I’m thinking that so many of us can donate, help people get adjusted to our communities, teach them English. I know many may want to return home but that may not be feasible for a very long time. And many people may want to adopt little ones, perhaps with a view to teaching them about their culture and ours.
It appears so based upon the Signal Boost Bill shared and some other things I’ve read. Suggest you try the link in the Boost and perhaps the Red Cross. Good luck!
There are two movies that I enjoyed that have to do with time travel (gets the little grey.cells
moving). These are older movies and can be rented at a library, but often are streaming.
The first is “About Time”. In this one you can travel back in time deliberately, but only in your lifetime. You can imagine what a young male teen would do with this? Very funny, but begs the question, what would you do if you could deliberately do an event over and how would it impact the rest of your life? All the folks I recommended this to enjoyed it.
The second is “Siding Doors”, where suddenly in one second your life splits into two paths, each with different endings running simultaneously. You had no control over this. Did you ever have something happen that changed your life dramatically? Did you ever wonder what would have happened if that incident didn’t happen? (Parallel timelines)
So I don’t think this is controversial, but might be fun.
Loved Sliding Doors
I loved "About Time." I've never seen but always wanted to see "Sliding Doors."
If you haven’t seen Station 11, that series alone is worth a month of HBO. The same author (Emily St. John Mandel) has written several wonderful books including her most recent Sea of Tranquility. I won’t give away the story line because it unfolds so eloquently, but it relates to the topic you raised. The book was so good I finished it in just over a day. I’m heading to the library to pick up her first novel when I close my iPad.
Thanks for the tip! I was looking for a series to follow.
My top HBO list: Hacks, The Staircase, Julia, The Gilded Age, The Righteous Gemstones, Raised By Wolves, GOT, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Succession, Made for Love, The Tourist, Westworld, The Nevers, Chornobyl, Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects….I could go on. And that’s just HBO, Apple and Amazon are cranking out some great stuff. Netflix is beginning to price themselves out like Showtime did.
Bill, you are so cool! If you don’t get it right the first time you are willing to keep on trying. Most people just give up. This community you have built functions well together, and I believe strongly in the perimeters you are setting. There are too many sites you can go to that
Are “free for all’s” with a lot of ugly stuff being said there. I do not want to be part of that
but this community regardless of our differences or similarities keeps it civil. It all starts from the top…. Thank you for the pic of the Big Hole, from now on every time I look at a blood orange I will see it. And can’t wait to get those glasses. To communicate, really communicate with someone I would not be able to normally is an amazing gift to the world.
I agree - the civility starts at the top. Thanks, Bill.
I don't think the following is controversial. I don't think we should pit one minority against another but Native Americans often are left out of the news. There is a special spot in my heart for the group that was here first. I am so glad we now have our first Native American cabinet member, Deb Haaland, who in her short time here has already done much to elevate and publicize Native Americans. I have read that a full 40% of Americans do not believe that Natives even exist anymore. How would you feel if a large group of Americans did not even know your ethnic group existed? We never (and I don't use absolute terms often ) see Natives in TV ads. The last time I saw one was in the 1960s; that famous littering ad which depicted a Native American with tears running down his cheek. Natives have been in the news lately thanks to Deb Haaland publicizing the unspeakable tragedy of boarding schools as well as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. MMIW day was May 5th and I had to search to find anything on mainstream media about it. Does anyone know the month that is Native American Heritage month? Very little news on that one.
I established a scholarship endowment for enrolled Natives at my alma mater and in my own small way, trying to do what I can to help. This is my own passion, reading and learning much about the tragedies, broke treaties and the poverty that so many Natives endure today. We often speak about the need to educate children about Black history and slavery. Yes, do that but do not leave out Native history. Many parts of it are also very tragic and heartbreaking. I watched a recent interview featuring Secretary Haaland and she used the words "we Natives feel invisible and cancelled." Will we ever have a Native Supreme Court justice? Natives have a beautiful culture, they REVERE their elders and certain tribes have their own languages and traditions. I just finished a book "Stringing Rosaries" about the tragic Native boarding school situation.
I find this interesting as a parent of a child on the rolls and living in Oklahoma where the population of the state is heavily Native American of various tribes. Here it is very visibly locally, but having traveled a lot pre-pandemic for work I can see that is not the case nationally.
There is such a tumultuous history between the Indigenous peoples across the country (really the globe) and those who colonized the land. It is hard for people to face their past and I am sure it is much easier to pretend a group doesn't really exist than to put them front and center and talk with them.
First the sad:
The famous commercial you cited above is even sadder since the "native" actor who was known as Iron Eyes Cody was actually an Italian-American who pretended to be Native (pretty interesting reading about him out there).
Then the positives:
November is Native American Heritage Month
I am hopeful that the big screen adaptation of Killer of the Flower Moon (tragic true story of white greed and Osage murder in Oklahoma that helped found the FBI) with it's cast and presence may help to elevate Native American awareness and causes (also timed to come out in November!)
Thanks for this response. I have heard that Oklahoma does have a lot of Natives. In my home state of ND, we do have about 5 tribes and they are VISIBLE so that is one of the "problems" elsewhere as many Natives may be on reservations or in non-visible situations.
For those who have never seen the littering ad with the Italian "Native American" it is available and worth watching. Very grainy but still a good ad. I was raised in the era of "do not litter" and the Keep America Beautiful era and I am appalled when people throw stuff out their car window and I find it on the boulevard. Just makes me sick. Sorry for the digression.
I’m sorry. But of all the things to protest. Vegan “milk” up-charge at Starbucks. How would you even notice an up-charge at Starbucks?
Good to see the black hole. Well. I guess. Doesn’t that mean our planet will end up there someday if we don’t kill ourselves off beforehand? I’m a bit shaky on my astronomy and my math, I just know Starbucks coffee is really expensive! 😬
With a burr grinder, locally roasted coffee from a good roaster and an OXO 9 cup Barista Brain coffee make and I have an automatic pour over machine with really fresh coffee. That $13 12 oz bag off coffee gives us 10-12 days of 3+ full cups. The equipment amortizes out to 77¢/day over five years and the coffee to around 36¢ so we are enjoying coffee in our PJs for 33¢ a cup. Hey Starbucks: bye Felisha!
Are Ukrainian families being sent to the US? If so, where and how can we help them? I’m thinking that so many of us can donate, help people get adjusted to our communities, teach them English. I know many may want to return home but that may not be feasible for a very long time. And many people may want to adopt little ones, perhaps with a view to teaching them about their culture and ours.
It appears so based upon the Signal Boost Bill shared and some other things I’ve read. Suggest you try the link in the Boost and perhaps the Red Cross. Good luck!