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Although we’re in the middle of a particularly cold winter, with below zero temps and copious snowfall, I can think of a few things that aren’t so bad. Good Food Preview Open
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If you have yet to see Coraline I highly recommend you do so. An adolescent horror film from Focus Features and Laika Entertainment – the latter of which also created gems such as The Corpse Bride, and Paranorman – this animated film takes us on a strange journey of a young girl who is transported to a seemingly alternate world where she’s given all that she would want, but at a price. The animation style is unique for the time and just adds to the strange feel of the tale. Based on a novella by Neil Gaiman, it offers a warning for our modern times that I’m certain Gaiman would never intend, nor, I’m certain, would he in any way approve of the parallels I shall make in this commentary.
The debate the other night between Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Gov. Charlie Crist offered actual meat coming from Gov. DeSantis, with the new fake plant-based meat coming from Crist. We’ve lived in Florida long enough to have lived under both governors. DeSantis delivered answers that belong to a real governor. He answered questions directly, based on real-life issues, both state and national, and his policies. For example:
A text from my sister prompted this post. She lives in a small, rural mountain town in Maryland. It read as follows: “We had a luncheon after church for our lead singer/guitarist. He is moving to Williamsburg, VA. We are also taking a collection for a church in the Kentucky floods. A couple is going down to take the supplies and funds.”
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a landmark report in which he contended that the rising number of black families headed by unmarried mothers would reduce the prospects for Blacks to rise out of poverty, in spite of that era’s landmark civil rights legislation.
I saw the headlines on the Texas elementary school shooting flash on the TV screen, like most of you. My husband said, “I don’t want you to see this.” It didn’t work. I laid awake with my own mental pictures and tried to put the pieces of a distorted, senseless, fragmented, and tragic puzzle together. The pieces didn’t fit. I read the story this morning — an 18-year-old Hispanic boy who had a dark, online life and somehow acquired guns.
We just moved. I’m in a new neighborhood, a new town, same state – thank God (for Gov. DeSantis). It’s a 55+ community because me, my husband and our cat are over 55. He picked the community – when we cashed out in spades selling our old house, and our real estate agent told us about our current town. We like it here, but it’s been less than two weeks. There’s construction – because half the country is moving to Florida – and older folks.
