The temperature is going down but there is still work to be outside in the gardens. I sifted some castings from the Worm Box today, build up the compost pile and worm depository in the backyard and brought in some planters into the sun room. I felt sad working in the dying backyard garden today but it was a peaceful type of sadness.
Tonight my wife and I went to see the last of the Harry Potter movies at the Budget Theater. I thought we were the almost the last people to see on a big screen but my son called to say he and his family had just seen it tonight at a Budget theater up north. My grandson Carson started reading the books when he was in 3rd or 4th grade and now he is eighth grade. The movie is full of violence that probably sacred my seven year granddaughter but the movie had a happy ending. It seems like we all are, except young children, becoming somewhat desensitized to violence on TV and in the movies.
The movie I want to see, that just came out tonight, is “The “Way” starting Martin Sheen and written and directed by his son, Emilio Estevez. It is a story about four people on a Pilgrimage in Spain on the Camino de Santiago. I read that none of the Hollywood production companies wanted to produce it since it lackrf ‘vulgarity’. Critics are giving it great reviews and I might have to see it on a regular large screen since it probably will not come to the budget theater. From what I heard and saw from interviews and clips it is a funny and deeply spiritual movie without hitting you over the head with religious messages. But sadly it will never be a hit like Harry Potter or Avatar, which might have good messages of good overcoming evil but is full of death and violence.
Violence, sex and vulgarity sells in movie. But real, life with its joyful and sad moments is not found in most movies or even reality TV but in pilgrimage of life, in the way.
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