You need to listen to pay attention and understand I have no words to speak to you for I am future and words are not yet spoken My siblings have shown you joy in the past, promise in the present what you were, how it stands today But there is one lesson left the certain…
Review ‘Scrooge’ 1951
More information at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/ Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ is one of the most adapted stories ever. According to Wikipedia, it has been adapted for stage over fifty times, and has around twenty each film and television versions. It’s a morality tale and a ghost story, and works brilliantly on both counts. I think that…
What are you thinking?
What are you thinking? Alone in your room The light that filled this place a moment since Has gone as if it never was Where the messenger’s wings brushed the walls Is only empty space And all that remains Are his wonderful, terrible words That hang in the air, that burn in your heart Was…
A perfect little Christmas
We’ve seen a million articles decrying the commercialization of Christmas and exhorting everyone to find meaning in other ways than spending money. The real problem with all this advertising is the message that Christmas must be perfect in order to be enjoyable. At this time of the year we get inundated with commercials, brochures, and…