a mother’s love

I just finished watching “The Bridges of Madison County” for the first time.  It happened to be on the tv while I was doing some work in my apartment living room, and I ended up watching closely the second half of the movie.

For me this movie told the story of a mom’s love for her children.  My grandfather was right about moms.  Moms are almost not human in that they selflessly live for their children.  They so deeply love their offspring that they sacrifice, and would sacrifice, their own life and happiness for the sake of their children.  My mother has always been like this.

I cannot describe the love I have for my own mom.  Perhaps the best way to understand how much I love her, is my own willingness to make sacrifices for her sake.   I am motivated to work hard, so that I can one day be successful enough to take good care of her.    Lord knows she deserves it!

Thanks grandpa for teaching me this important lesson!

More information about “The Bridges of Madison County” :   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/

In Treatment

I watch this HBO original series and am consistently impressed by how well written it is, and how great a job all the actors do.    I watch the show because I think the show puts on center stage many changes that are occuring within the American culture.   Of course I also like understanding the ‘why’ behind peoples actions…

http://www.hbo.com/intreatment

Why are TV commercials so much loader than the television programming?

I cannot stand how channels are programmed to be louder than the programming it is played between.   Can someone please make it stop!?!    It almost makes me want to stop watching TV.

Apartment For Peggy

Apartment For Peggy is a movie I stumbled upon.  It happened to be on the TV–about half way through to the end–when I turned it on today, and I sure am glad it was.  I watched the entire last half of it, because it was so well written and articulate.    Perhaps I read into movies too much, but I think the movie is great, and perfectly fitting for a young leader.  I think the movie does a good job of illustrating a number of lessons.  In addition, the movie was surprisingly watchable for being so old.  Some of these lessons include:

• focusing on money, makes you short-sided,and unable to see the forest among the trees
• a tree takes a long time grow big and tall, but it is beautiful once it has
• don’t raise peoples hopes prematurely
• philosophy means the love of wisdom
• leadership may naturally follow passion
• a positive attitude is infectious
• the wise continue learning all through out their lives
• anything worth doing, isn’t easy
• times sure have changed (women are treated much differently nowadays)

 

Watch the movie, and maybe post some lessons you took from the movie as comments to this post!  I would love to read them.

dumb question?

If there is no such thing as a “dumb question,” why is there apparently such thing as a “great question” or an “an interesting question”? Over and over, I hear really smart people say things like “that is a great question”, and I think this must mean that the speaker is judging a question on a scale of quality. My question is thus do “dumb questions” really exist, and can they be identified as that question which is not followed by “that’s a great question”?